On 5/31/07, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31/05/07, Eamonn Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/30/07, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > contains a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual card which is not 100% working in > > > Linux yet. > > > > Interesting point. I was looking carefully at their dual-tuner > > offering, since they're selling it for probably less than it would > > cost me to build one. But I don't want to buy something that doesn't > > work. Can you be more specific about what's not working right now with > > those tuner cards? > > It's implemented in hardware as a pci device containing a usb hub with > two tuners. There's a bug in the kernel usb-core code which causes > kernel oopsen under certain conditions! While the oops was fixed (in > the latest v4l-dvb, which you'll have to compile yourself from > Mercurial), it can still get the usb disconnect event randomly or just > fail to read from or write to the device. Turning off EIT (which > contains program information encoded in the stream itself) seems to > reduce the frequency of the failures, but it is still remarkably > flakey even then. Restarting myth-backend (and sometimes reloading > the modules) is necessary to get it working again. Rather annoying if > you had set it to record stuff while away on holiday or something! > > So, basically it works well, but will stop working randomly from time > to time, and can still sometimes cause a kernel oops.
Hmm... occassional kernel oops isn't want you want from an appliance. Thanks for the info. Maybe i'll stick with my plan to build one (I would have used a faster processor, and maybe latest Intel motherboard graphics to avoid the proprietary drivers) and use an older, more supported TV card. -Eamonn -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
