[vdr] Re: Crashes, OSD Color

["Ulrich Petri" <ulope@gmx.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> 
> I am running 
> 
> 3*rev 1.3 DVB (Siemens)
> VDR 1.0.1 (original, no patches)
> SuSE 7.3
> kernel 2.4.10
> siemens_dvb-0.9.4-2002-04-01 (as on the VDR download page)
> 
> I never have that effect with OSD colors getting mixed up.
> 
> You wrote that this happens "with plain vdr from 0.99 to 1.0.1".
> Does this mean that it didn't happen _before_ VDR 0.99, or did you
> just not test versions before that?

I didn't test any versions before that...

> What about different driver
> versions?

It also happend with the 0.9.3 driver from i think Oct 2001.

> I would suspect the driver or firmware to be the problem
> area, since I believe I remember earlier postings (quite a while ago)
> that stated that a restart of VDR wasn't enough to fix this - it was
> necessary to reload the driver. So, when this error occurs, 
> do you have
> to reload the driver, or does a restart of VDR already fix it?

You're right that was not very clear.
Actually a driver reload is nessecary to fix it.

When it happens again i will take a grab and post it.

Cu Ulrich