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

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Wednesday 15 Dec 2004 08:59, Christian Schuld wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> thanks for your work on this topic. In my *very* humble opinion the bug is
> in dvb-core. I have a setup with 2 FF, 1 Nova, 1 Skystar2 and in happens
> quite often, that rmmod refuses to unload dvb-core after a problem. rmmod
> -f sometimes works, but once in a week i have to reboot.

Oh, interesting - do the nova AND the skystar2 lose suffer the problem at the 
same time?

> The problems occurs more often with bad reception, e.g. if I zap on a weak
> satellite. So perhaps missing error checks in softdemux cause dvb-core to
> go wild? Just a guess.

Could be certainly