[linux-dvb] Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] msleep() and delay function (DVB)

2004-07-02 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 07/01/04 23:10, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: [Not subscribed to linux-dvb, so please CC back if replying from that list] I'm working on one of the KernelJanitor/TODO items, specifically converting appropriate calls to schedule_timeout() to msleep() calls (Addendum by Greg KH to original

[linux-dvb] Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] Re: msleep() and delay function (DVB)

2004-07-02 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Michael Hunold wrote: I don't think it's ever necessary to be interruptible for us, so mdelay() is suitable. ^^ msleep() Johannes

[linux-dvb] How to send A/V-Packets without blocking the whole device

2004-07-02 Thread Roland Praml
Hi, I'm working on an DVB-output extension for the SDL-library, so you can use SDL-ported apps on your TV-screen: http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=19229sid= (sorry in german!) Currently Audio and Video works separately well. But if I send audio and video packets to the device,

[linux-dvb] Re: tda1004x.c and support of future firmware

2004-07-02 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Luke, On 07/01/04 23:37, Luke Anderson wrote: as you may be aware, the firmware for tda1004x is stored in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/tda1004x.bin. However a problem arises whenever a new firmware is released because the offsets are different within that file. May I suggest that tda1004x.c

[linux-dvb] Re: tda1004x.c and support of future firmware

2004-07-02 Thread Luke Anderson
Just to clear up some confusion I was having, I incorrectly assumed that the different versions numbers for the drivers available from the technotrend.de site, were indicative of different firmware versions. I now know this not to be the case. But it appears that although the firmware version

[linux-dvb] Re: tda1004x.c and support of future firmware

2004-07-02 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: Michael Hunold [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Rename the default firmware from tda1004x.bin to dvb-fe-tda1004x-2.15a.fw. Add a comment that users should extract and rename their firmware appropriately. Hmm, how about a really flexible solution: Instead of reading a firmware file directly, read a

[linux-dvb] VDR on Fedora Core 2 (kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1)

2004-07-02 Thread Otto J. Makela
What is the current status, if I were to switch my full-feature Hauppauge card over to a new Fedora Core 2 machine which uses kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1, what patches do I need to apply or should a current release work immediately? -- /* * * Otto J. Makela [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * *

[linux-dvb] Re: tda1004x.c and support of future firmware

2004-07-02 Thread Andreas Oberritter
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 12:32, Michael Hunold wrote: 1. Rename the default firmware from tda1004x.bin to dvb-fe-tda1004x-2.15a.fw. That's the Technotrend Windows driver version, not the DSP firmware version. Add a comment that users should extract and rename their firmware appropriately.

[linux-dvb] Re: tda1004x.c and support of future firmware

2004-07-02 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Andreas Oberritter wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 12:32, Michael Hunold wrote: 1. Rename the default firmware from tda1004x.bin to dvb-fe-tda1004x-2.15a.fw. That's the Technotrend Windows driver version, not the DSP firmware version. What's important is that the driver and the firmware

[linux-dvb] Re: tda1004x.c and support of future firmware

2004-07-02 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: Luke Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] However I have tried, and failed to hack the sources to accomodate the DLL from this new driver version: static struct fwinfo tda10045h_fwinfo[] = { {.file_size = 286720,.fw_offset = 0x34cc5,.fw_size = 30555}, {.file_size =

[linux-dvb] Re: tda1004x.c and support of future firmware

2004-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi Andreas, On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:00:28PM +0200, Andreas Oberritter wrote: [...] the (hardcoded) firmware version in tda1004x_check_upload_ok is quite useless IMHO. I agree with you that a hardcoded comparison is not a good solution. However, especially in case of problems with the driver

[linux-dvb] Re: KWorld DVB-t

2004-07-02 Thread Jonathan Thorpe
I managed to do some testing of Christopher Pascoe's driver this evening with interesting results. I used the CVS version of linuxtv DVB along with Christopher's mt352 front end (the current one in the CVS didn't get nearly as far as Christopher's mt352.c from

[linux-dvb] Re: VDR on Fedora Core 2 (kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1)

2004-07-02 Thread Torbjörn Jansson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the current status, if I were to switch my full-feature Hauppauge card over to a new Fedora Core 2 machine which uses kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1, what patches do I need to apply or should a current release work immediately? There is (was?) a problem with the osd

[linux-dvb] Problems with budget dvb-s cards

2004-07-02 Thread Andreas Share
Hi, i and some other people from vdrportal.de have some trouble using budget cards, because the card died after some time. In my case there are Skystar2 rev 2.6c and Nova budged (like budget-ci) cards and a fullfeatured rev. 1.5 card (all of them use the stv0299 friontend, but other reported

[linux-dvb] Driver for VisionPlus VisionDTV USB-Ter DVB-T

2004-07-02 Thread Patrick Boettcher
Hello dvb-users, I proudly announce that I have completed a first alpha-driver for the mentioned device. (aka VP7041) If you own such a device I would like to encourage you to test the driver and please, please report if you had problems or not. Also, if you do not own such a device, it would be

[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with budget dvb-s cards

2004-07-02 Thread nuko-mail
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:41:37PM +0200, Andreas Share wrote: In this case there are no more handled IRQ´s to see in /proc/interrupts for the card. I have tried to debug this on a second computer with a rev 1.3 as primary and a second skystar2 as secondary card. The only i have seen is that i

[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with budget dvb-s cards

2004-07-02 Thread Andreas Share
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:41:37PM +0200, Andreas Share wrote: In this case there are no more handled IRQ´s to see in /proc/interrupts for the card. I have tried to debug this on a second computer with a rev 1.3 as primary and a second skystar2 as secondary card. The only i have seen is

[linux-dvb] Pinnacle PCTV Sat doesn't work on kernel 2.6 - adapter0 is not a device

2004-07-02 Thread Till Fischer
Hi, I have a problem, I don't get my Pinnacle PCTV Sat to work on Linux kernel 2.6. In my desperation I tried to load nearly every module I found in the dvb folder. After loading every module I tried whether the DVB-card works, but it did never. So the loaded dvb modules are right now:

[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with budget dvb-s cards

2004-07-02 Thread nuko-mail
The following code does a few loops and then kills my card: (or is there something wrong with the program??) #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include unistd.h #include linux/dvb/frontend.h #include linux/dvb/dmx.h #include errno.h #include string.h #include sys/ioctl.h #include fcntl.h void

[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with budget dvb-s cards

2004-07-02 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote my own application to get epg. I call the usual SetFiltSection() in a loop to get the package for the currently tuned channel. After too many calls (30-40??) the card (nova) hangs, too. Module reloading doesn't fix the problem. Since I don't have to wait a

[linux-dvb] Re: How to send A/V-Packets without blocking the whole device

2004-07-02 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Roland Praml wrote: I'm working on an DVB-output extension for the SDL-library, so you can use SDL-ported apps on your TV-screen: http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=19229sid= (sorry in german!) Currently Audio and Video works separately well. But if I send audio and

[linux-dvb] AW: Re: How to send A/V-Packets without blocking the whole device

2004-07-02 Thread Roland Praml
Your description of what you do is rather vague. Assuming you write audio to /dev/dvb/adapterX/audioY and video to /dev/dvb/adapterX/videoY, why don't you use nonblocking I/O? Yes thats right, I open the devices with O_NONBLOCK and I poll each device to see if i can write new data. But it

[linux-dvb] Problem watching other channels and recordings while recording a CA channel

2004-07-02 Thread Antti-Pekka Liedes
I already mailed about this on the vdr list, but got no responses and I think this is probably a driver problem anyway. I have two Hauppauge DVB-C 2.1 cards with CI and Conax CAM on the first card. I'm using the first card's video out. I'm currently using linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1 and vdr 1.3.11,

[linux-dvb] dvb technotrend budget won't work, please help me!

2004-07-02 Thread Benjamin Adler
Hello! I bought a Technotrend DVB-C PCI budget card on eBay (http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=5100217074) and have now tried for more than two weeks to make it work with linux. I have really tried many different things, two different computers, many many kernel versions,

[linux-dvb] Re: KWorld DVB-t

2004-07-02 Thread Jonathan Thorpe
Hi Soyeb, Since the KWorld/V-Stream card uses the same Samsung Tuner as the AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-T 771, I decided to force the mt352 front end to treat the V-Stream card as an Avermedia card with interesting results. It seems that the tuner can now be controlled, but I can't grab the stream.

[linux-dvb] Re: KWorld DVB-t

2004-07-02 Thread Jonathan Thorpe
I wonder if this info in the kernel logs could be a hint as to why the DVB isn't working: -- cx88_register_dvb_module Linux video capture interface: v1.00 cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded cx8800[0]: found at :01:08.0, rev: 5, irq: 18, latency: 32, mmio: 0xde00 cx8800[0]: