On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Joseph Shraibman <linuxtv....@jks.tupari.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > >> Are you sure you have zero signal strength, or just really low signal >> strength? I am pretty sure on the s5h1411, the signal strength field >> is populated with the the SNR, which could be construed as very low >> signal strength if you were expecting a percentage scaled from 0 to >> 65535. >> >> Have you run femon to confirm that the strength field really is zero? >> > > FE: Oren OR51132 VSB/QAM Frontend (ATSC) > status | signal 3506 | snr 073f | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | > status | signal 3506 | snr 073f | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | > status | signal 3506 | snr 073f | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | > status | signal 3506 | snr 073f | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | > status | signal 3506 | snr 073f | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | > status | signal 3506 | snr 073f | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 |
On some demods, the strength and SNR indicators are only valid if you have a lock. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller http://www.devinheitmueller.com AIM: devinheitmueller -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
