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

[Stefan Taferner <taferner@kde.org>]

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 00:13, w-thiel@gmx.net wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 09:58:05PM +0000, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > ....
> >
> > > Unfortunately, most of the developers seem to think that this problem
> > > is related to special cards: imho, I don't think it is.
> > > Unfortunately, my skills are limited; I tried to help with error
> > > reports: see the other thread.
> >
> > The skystar2 uses a totally different PCI chipset (b2c2) which has a
> > hardware TS demuxer (although it is possible to tell it to use the
> > software demux). It is possible these identical symptoms are caused by
> > something else as it is a totally different chipset.
>
> That's my suspicion: we have a "multiple problem" here. Nevertheless,
> we have a problem (some problems?) that manifest itselves on different
> budget cards.

The original poster's problem is that the card does not work on cold boot.
Your problem is different as I understand, as your card works at first.
Maybe this should go into another thread?

Kind regards,
Stefan