[linux-dvb] Frontend of new NOVA not yet supported

2003-01-13 Thread Markus Lauer
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Hi Peter, Hi List! It seems that my frontend (STV0229B) is not supported. I have a new NOVA (WITHOUT CI): -- Bus 0, device 13, function 0:

[linux-dvb] Re: How to use NTSC with 2.5, CVS and xawtv?

2003-01-13 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Gregoire, I just wanted to play a DVD (NTSC) and it appears I can't change anymore to NTSC? Any idea on what I should do? Of course NTSC support is still in the saa7146 driver, but it's not enabled in the av7110 driver, because I cannot test any of the settings. So I just waited for

[linux-dvb] Feat. Request: upload Firmware via IOCTL, firmware reset

2003-01-13 Thread Benjamin Forgeau
Hi, Would it be possible to upload the firmware at run-time, in theory? And what about a firmware reset at run-time?? regards ben -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe linux-dvb as subject.

[linux-dvb] Re: loosing data with Freeze command

2003-01-13 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:47:47AM +0100, Marlec Olivier wrote: Hi, I am using a DVB-S board version 2.1 with DVB driver version 0.9.4. I don't get data flow by PCI bus (so I'm not using the host DRAM) but directly by the common interface connector. When I call the driver DVB Freeze command

[linux-dvb] Re: Feat. Request: upload Firmware via IOCTL, firmwarereset

2003-01-13 Thread Holger Waechtler
Benjamin Forgeau wrote: Hi, Would it be possible to upload the firmware at run-time, in theory? And what about a firmware reset at run-time?? yes, it is possible. Basic efforts to reset the ARM are in the source but not yet complete. Just do the changes and send a patch. Holger --

[linux-dvb] Re: frequency bending on DVB-T cards

2003-01-13 Thread Holger Waechtler
Andrew de Quincey wrote: I've just noticed a behavioural difference between DVB/driver and dvb-kernel (I have temporarily removed my grundig mods in case it was that) If I do dvbtune -f ., and then dvbtune -m, in DVB/driver, this works fine, but in dvb-kernel, it loses the the tuning

[linux-dvb] pentavalue under linux troubles

2003-01-13 Thread Alexandre CONRAD
Hello, I have a problem with my one of my pentavalue under linux : -- Monitor for Pent@VALUE (Ver 1.0.1) -- [Driver/Device info] # Device name : pentaval0 # Driver status : Enable # Driver version : 2.1.5 # MAC address :

[linux-dvb] Re: Frontend of new NOVA not yet supported

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Schildmann
Hi, On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:12:16AM +0100, Markus Lauer wrote: I'm using the current CVS dvb-kernel driver and built it under /build-2.4 Compilation finishs with no error. please try the stv0299 driver from dvb-kernel CVS with the DVB CVS driver (copy the file stv0299.c to alps_bsru6.c).

[linux-dvb] Re: Frontend of new NOVA not yet supported

2003-01-13 Thread Markus Lauer
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Peter Schildmann wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:12:16AM +0100, Markus Lauer wrote: I'm using the current CVS dvb-kernel driver and built it under /build-2.4 Compilation finishs with no error. please try

[linux-dvb] Re: Frontend of new NOVA not yet supported

2003-01-13 Thread Markus Lauer
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Holger Waechtler wrote: As soon somebody who owns this card made the required modifications to the driver? Can you please tell me something more about your card? What's the name of the frontend, what PLL/Synthesizer

[linux-dvb] Re: Frontend of new NOVA not yet supported

2003-01-13 Thread Holger Waechtler
Markus Lauer wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Holger Waechtler wrote: As soon somebody who owns this card made the required modifications to the driver? Can you please tell me something more about your card? What's the name of the

[linux-dvb] Re: i2c problems with dvb-kernel

2003-01-13 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Peter, Jan 12 10:53:11 mozart kernel: saa7146: saa7146_i2c_transfer(): msg:1/2 Jan 12 10:53:11 mozart kernel: saa7146: saa7146_i2c_transfer(): msg:2/2 Jan 12 10:53:11 mozart kernel: saa7146: saa7146_i2c_writeout(): before: 0xd005b5e8 (status: 0x0100), 0 Jan 12 10:53:11 mozart kernel:

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-01-13 Thread Bruno Prior
Gavin Hamill wrote: 2) Try the card in Windows! Make sure you don't actually have a duff one! :) Right. I've tried sticking the Nova-T in Rachel's computer, which is dual-bootable Win98 and Mandrake 9.0. Windows recognized the new hardware and the drivers installed OK. The software installed

[linux-dvb] EOVERFLOW with section filter

2003-01-13 Thread Stefan Huelswitt
Hi, I have setup a section filter and sometimes I get EOVERFLOW on reading the filter. What does this mean? Driver buffer overflow? TIA. -- Stefan Huelswitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://home.pages.de/~nathan -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe linux-dvb

[linux-dvb] Re: EOVERFLOW with section filter

2003-01-13 Thread Holger Waechtler
Stefan Huelswitt wrote: Hi, I have setup a section filter and sometimes I get EOVERFLOW on reading the filter. What does this mean? Driver buffer overflow? You did not fetched your section data fast enough, the driver ringbuffer was flowing over. Either increase buffer size or optimize your

[linux-dvb] Re: i2c problems with dvb-kernel

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Schildmann
Hello Michael, On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:07:45PM +0100, Michael Hunold wrote: Hello Peter, and send the trace? Perhaps we can see what's happening for the DVB driver... Here is the trace from the DVB driver. Peter Jan 13 23:12:45 mozart kernel: DVB: registering new adapter

[linux-dvb] Status of dvb-kernel vs DVB?

2003-01-13 Thread Ragnar Sundblad
--On den 9 januari 2003 16:38 +0100 Holger Waechtler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which driver version should I be using now? current CVS head, module DVB/ if you want to watch TV, module dvb-kernel/ if you want to join development. What is the status of dvb-kernel really? Is it close to on par

[linux-dvb] Re: EOVERFLOW with section filter

2003-01-13 Thread Stefan Huelswitt
On 13 Jan 2003 Holger Waechtler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Huelswitt wrote: reading the filter. What does this mean? Driver buffer overflow? You did not fetched your section data fast enough, the driver ringbuffer was flowing over. Either increase buffer size or optimize your program

[linux-dvb] Re: EOVERFLOW with section filter

2003-01-13 Thread Andreas Oberritter
Hi On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 00:05, Stefan Huelswitt wrote: What is the default buffer size? 8192 bytes And how to changes? DMX_SET_BUFFER_SIZE? ioctl(demux_fd, DMX_SET_BUFFER_SIZE, size_in_bytes); Regards, Andreas -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

[linux-dvb] Re: EOVERFLOW with section filter

2003-01-13 Thread Felix Domke
Well, the machine is nearly idle, so the program shouldn't be the cause, but there seem to be bursts of data. Maybe you read()ing less than the maximum section size (8k if i remember correctly). A bigger section (that your buffer) will be kept in the buffer, since you can only read

[linux-dvb] Re: EOVERFLOW with section filter

2003-01-13 Thread Jeremy Hall
all of the code I've seen reads 3 bytes, determines the length, then reads the correct amount. but if your buffer is 4096 and you try to read 8k or buffersize, you might hit this problem. My understanding is that a section shall be no larger than 4096 bytes? _J In the new year, Felix Domke

[linux-dvb] Re: EOVERFLOW with section filter

2003-01-13 Thread Andreas Oberritter
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 01:27, Jeremy Hall wrote: all of the code I've seen reads 3 bytes, determines the length, then reads the correct amount. I've definitively seen other code, too. :-) What is the benefit of doing two reads instead of one? Being able to malloc(section_length + 3) and to copy

[linux-dvb] Re: Status of dvb-kernel vs DVB?

2003-01-13 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Ragnar, current CVS head, module DVB/ if you want to watch TV, module dvb-kernel/ if you want to join development. What is the status of dvb-kernel really? Is it close to on par with DVB-head? Here is a short explanation: the driver in the DVB tree is monolithic, ie. it contains the