[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with WinTV NOVA-CI

[Stefan Taferner <taferner@kde.org>]

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 10:09, Werner Hauger wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:51:30 +0200, Werner Hauger <whauger@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:31:07 +0100, Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> 
wrote:
> > > You could check for yourself: run lspci -vvxxx after cold and
> > > warm boot from windoze. As for interpretation of the values one
> > > has to consult the pci spec. But it's also possible that irq
> > > routing is screwed up which won't show up in lspci I think.
> >
> > Thanks. I'll try exactly this tonight and report back.
>
> Ok. The PCI registers are identical (lspci -vxxx) after cold and warm
> booting. However it seems I have to redefine cold booting. Once the
> card worked (after having been in Windows),  it continued to work even
> after I had the PC switched off. I even pulled the power cord for a
> few seconds, but after booting directly into Linux, the card still
> worked first time. Only after leaving the PC switched off over night,
> did I get the "normal" behaviour the next morning.

Could it be that "a few seconds" was too short to completely power down the 
card?

I cannot confirm your observations. For me switching off the computer for
10 seconds triggers the cold boot behaviour.

--Stefan