On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Giacomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good morning.
>
> I have the Pinnacle PRO Stick installed from em28xx-new.
> Sometimes, when I plug in the device, and start tvtime, i get tvtime
> error saying
> "Failed to open /dev/video0".
> The curious thing is that opening xawtv and then closing it and
> reopening tvtime solves
> the problem and tvtime works...
>

can you do some more investigation uppon it?
the only reason I can think about is something is holding the dvb-t
part open and locks analog video.

> Another issue is that using kaffeine on the same device, closing it and
> opening tvtime causes various crashes, which may vary from X server crashes to
> kernel complete freeze.
>

dmesg, this might be graphiccard related. I do get crashes
occasionally too with my ATI drivers (varying from X server crashes to
kernel freezes) even without watching television.

> Another question: when will the em28xx-new be merged to  v4l-dvb?
>

when it's more or less ready, development is going on rapidly.
Currently the only thing that is holding me back from submitting
anything is the remote control code which is doesn't work well with
older kernels, I hope nothing else will come up when this is solved
somehow.

> Is there an easy way to stay informed of the driver changes and
> corrections, so that it
> makes sense to download and upgrade to the latest version of the drivers??
>

there's an em28xx-commits mailinglist available.

> Thanks a lot for Your kind attention
>

cheers,
Markus

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