[vdr] Re: 1.1.33 and black screen

["Bläser, Lars" <LBlaeser@hofheim.de>]

> From: Jan Ekholm [mailto:chakie@infa.abo.fi]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 7:51 AM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] 1.1.33 and black screen
> Hi,
> 
> I downloaded 1.1.33 and the recommended DVB driver package 
> yesterday and
> have some problems. Yesterday it ran just fine and I did several
> recordings, some overlapping and some while watching an older 
> recording.
> No problems at all.
...
> So something seems to still go wrong, this same thing has 
> happened for a
> number of versions, since somewhere late in the 1.1.20 
> series. Before it
> usually filled the log with "Switching to channel X" 
> messages, but these
> messages are gone now. The early 1.1.20 versions that I first 
> used never
> had this same problem, they could crash for other reasons, 
> but never left
> me with a black screen. Somehow I suspect the DVB drivers, and not VDR
> itself, as VDR seems to work and has reported no problems nor 
> warnings.

i had such problems for a week after i was installing a new nic and changing from 1.0.4 to the actual developer version (1.0.4 was runnig fine)

after removing the new nic and changing the irq´s (2 dvb-s, one was shared with the irq of the bios-disabled usb) to definatly single use (btw i now use a old ISA graka, less heat and irq) i have no problems

i´m not shure what the problem was, a possible irq storm of the new realtek nic or the shared irq of one dvb-s, but now i don´t have this problem anymore (~3 times a day before, recording still worked fine but live was black and for replay the picture froze and audio looped imidiatly, after a while the watchdog restarted vdr)
maybe i will try to insert the "new" nic at the weekend for testing


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