[vdr] Re: Small & silent VDR custom STB

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:15:10 +0200, Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>
wrote:

> Got exactly the riser-card for the EPIA and it works in the Lex-mainboard 
> flawlessly too, probably its not much magic in their... the bios must just 
> assing interrupts to each card and the interrupt lines must be somehow 
> connected, then it should work. If only one interrupt is connected it might 
> work anyway using IRQ-sharing?? (The EPIA-Riser has a lot of undocumented 
> Jumper-fields).

I had never luck with sharing interrupts between DVB cards. My server
now runs since more than 3 years with the DVB cards on separate
interrupts without problems.

Another important points for selectings a STB base is the ability to
turn it on by remote control and a working NVRAM wakeup. Otherwise it
would have to run constantly which would cost a lot of money.

Emil