[linux-dvb] Re: Types and capabilites for HDTV ATSC.

2004-08-05 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: struct dvb_atsc_parameters { fe_modulation_t modulation; /* anything more? maybe 8VSB or 16VSB? */ }; struct dvb_frontend_parameters { __u32 frequency; fe_spectral_inversion_t inversion; union

[linux-dvb] Re: Types and capabilites for HDTV ATSC.

2004-08-05 Thread Holger Waechtler
I applied your proposed changes to the dvb-kernel CVS frontend.h file. You probably also need to add a struct dvb_atsc_parameters atsc to struct dvb_frontend_parameters parameter union, right? It would then look like this: struct dvb_atsc_parameters { fe_modulation_t modulation;

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] DVB v4 API suggestions.

2004-08-05 Thread Holger Waechtler
Kenneth Aafløy wrote: Hi! I've sent this to Michael, but never got a reply (that's happened before), is it just insane? What really annoys me is that when I want to do a simple demuxing task, such as harvesting all the PMT's, I have to set up a chain of fd's and do rotating and stuff, to avoid

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC][ANNOUNCE] blindscan: auto search everything

2004-08-03 Thread Holger Waechtler
Roberto Ragusa wrote: (BTW, typedefs are deprecated for kernel code (only allowed for explicitly opaque data types)). Until now, I've been contested: 1) "&buf" instead of "buf" 2) "//" comments 3) use of typedef the funny part is that 1) I copied&pasted existing code 2) "//" comments are everywhe

[linux-dvb] Re: Types and capabilites for HDTV ATSC.

2004-08-03 Thread Holger Waechtler
Mac Michaels wrote: I am the owner of a FunsionHDTV 3 Gold card. I have the analog TV and audio working with my modificatons to the CX88 driver. I am working on the Digital TV (HDTV ATSC) and want to integrate it into DVB as I seems to be a good fit. The FusionHDTV card produces a transport str

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC][ANNOUNCE] blindscan: auto search everything

2004-08-03 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Roberto Ragusa wrote: OK, so I propose this: - you use FE_SET_FRONTEND as usual - then, you call FE_SET_AUTO_SEARCH passing something as struct dvb_autosearch { fe_autosearch_t parameter; __u32 lower limit; __u32 higher limit; }

[linux-dvb] Re: Easy way to have patch against a kernel ?

2004-08-03 Thread Holger Waechtler
Gregoire Favre wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:48:48PM +0200, Steffen Barszus wrote: I would like to test the new dvb-kernel, but I also don't want to be forced to have a different kernel source for each kernel as I can't patch if with for example patch-2.6.8-rc1-rc2.bz2. So my question : does so

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC][ANNOUNCE] blindscan: auto search everything

2004-08-03 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Roberto Ragusa wrote: Holger Waechtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: struct dvb_fe_scan_spec { unsigned freq_start; unsigned freq_end; unsigned srate_start; unsigned srate_end; } A similiar approach works for the mt352 DVB-T demod, the

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC][ANNOUNCE] blindscan: auto search everything

2004-08-03 Thread Holger Waechtler
Roberto Ragusa wrote: On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:11:54 +0200 Holger Waechtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sounds hard to use. I would prefer the approach similiar to thy Zarlink Evalsoftware: pass the frequency and symbol rate ranges to the driver and then get interrupted/notified as soon som

[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC][ANNOUNCE] blindscan: auto search everything

2004-08-02 Thread Holger Waechtler
Roberto Ragusa wrote: Third idea: create our own hw independent ranges and define the meaning of the bits (we could use 16 bit, for example). Better, let decide that bit 31 means auto-sr and use 16 or 24 or 30 bits for ranges.That is: if (bit31==0) (bit29-bit0)=symbol rate in baud if (bit31==1)

[linux-dvb] Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: The DVB major device number has changed

2004-07-28 Thread Holger Waechtler
Michael Hunold wrote: Hi, On 07/27/04 19:39, Oliver Endriss wrote: On Tuesday 27 July 2004 19:20, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: The new offical major number is 212. I've changed the sources for dvb-kernel (dvbdev.h and MAKEDEV-DVB.sh). People who don't use devfs will have to recreate their devices.

[linux-dvb] Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: The DVB major device number has changed

2004-07-28 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: Oliver Endriss wrote: On Tuesday 27 July 2004 19:20, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Hi, I was just informed that LANANA has assigned an official major number for DVB, so we don't have to use the "unoffical / experimental use only" num

[linux-dvb] Re: Is DVB the right place for FusionHDTV card driver?

2004-07-27 Thread Holger Waechtler
John Dalgliesh wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Holger Waechtler wrote: Mac Michaels wrote: I own a DViCO FusionHDTV 3 Gold card and am writing a driver for it. I have modified the cx88 V4L2 driver to almost work for NTSC-M. All video and tuner functions work, no sound yet. I want to write a driver

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-s USB Technotrend: unknown STC version V 2.2

2004-07-27 Thread Holger Waechtler
Stefan Grotehans wrote: Holger Waechtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 27.07.04 21:16:05: > > John Dalgliesh wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Stefan Grotehans wrote: > >> > >>1) I implemented a new tuner type in stv0299.c. Since the new box ver 2.2 has

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-s USB Technotrend: unknown STC version V 2.2

2004-07-27 Thread Holger Waechtler
John Dalgliesh wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Stefan Grotehans wrote: 1) I implemented a new tuner type in stv0299.c. Since the new box ver 2.2 has a ALPS BSBE1 tuner. This tuner model has only two small differences to the BSRU tuner. However I will need Holgers's help to distinguesh between the ol

[linux-dvb] Re: "Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-S" don't work

2004-07-27 Thread Holger Waechtler
Martin Hammermüller wrote: HI! at firs: sorry my english is very (very,very...) bad! ;) i have a terratec cinergy 1200 dvb-s card. with a saa7146. but it don't work! i've try it with: - 2.4.20 kernel, linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1 and cvs version. - 2.6.7 kernel with linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1 Please use a recent CVS

[linux-dvb] Re: Extra frontend statuswords (new ioctls?)

2004-07-27 Thread Holger Waechtler
Roberto Ragusa wrote: Hi, frontends can currently return some information, such as BER, STRENGTH, SNR. Every one of this values is assigned an ioctl command. I'm experimenting with getting more detailed info from one of the frontends, by reading specific registers. Assuming I find something interes

[linux-dvb] Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: The DVB major device number has changed

2004-07-27 Thread Holger Waechtler
Oliver Endriss wrote: On Tuesday 27 July 2004 19:20, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Hi, I was just informed that LANANA has assigned an official major number for DVB, so we don't have to use the "unoffical / experimental use only" number 250 anymore. Apparently the number was assigned months ago, just

[linux-dvb] Re: Is DVB the right place for FusionHDTV card driver?

2004-07-27 Thread Holger Waechtler
Mac Michaels wrote: I own a DViCO FusionHDTV 3 Gold card and am writing a driver for it. I have modified the cx88 V4L2 driver to almost work for NTSC-M. All video and tuner functions work, no sound yet. I want to write a driver for the ATSC transport stream. Is DVB or V4L2 the best place to i

[linux-dvb] v1/v2/v3/v4/v5? (was: Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.)

2004-07-26 Thread Holger Waechtler
Hi Kenneth, Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Friday 23 July 2004 20:06, you wrote: that probably depends on the general plans regarding the current CVS tree and the schedule for the v4 API. If v4 is to be pushed to the public soonish then any work in the old tree despite bugfixes and minor cosmetic changes

[linux-dvb] Re: ttusb on MIPS - fake ISO transfers?

2004-07-26 Thread Holger Waechtler
Petr Nejedly wrote: Problem summary: When running dvb-ttusb-budget driver on a mipsel platform with ohci, the isochronous USB buffers come back from the hcd driver untouched although the period and size is probably OK. Details: I have Hauppage USB DVB-T. It works for me correctly on a PC (x86 n

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-s USB Technotrend: unknown STC version V 2.2

2004-07-26 Thread Holger Waechtler
Stefan Grotehans wrote: Folks, Holger's remarks are right! Here is the status of my efforts: 1) I implemented a new tuner type in stv0299.c. Since the new box ver 2.2 has a ALPS BSBE1 tuner. This tuner model has only two small differences to the BSRU tuner. However I will need Holgers's help to

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-26 Thread Holger Waechtler
Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Friday 23 July 2004 17:48, Holger Waechtler wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: one more point came to my mind: the 2.6 driver API provides a clean way to upload demod firmware files, no need for dirty hacks and workarounds and direct access of

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2004 14:18, Holger Waechtler wrote: I have to admit that I didn't felt the urge to use this yet, but at a first glance over the API everything looks good, pretty cleanly implemented and provides all the power management and hotplug features the cu

[linux-dvb] Re: Are frontend events queued?

2004-07-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Wolfgang Fritz wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get some facts about the infamous "video data stream broken" error in VDR. The following modified code from VDR-1.3.10/dvbdevice.c cDvbTuner::Action active = true; while (active) { if (tunerStatus == tsTuned) { fe_status

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2004 14:18, Holger Waechtler wrote: I have to admit that I didn't felt the urge to use this yet, but at a first glance over the API everything looks good, pretty cleanly implemented and provides all the power management and hotplug features the cu

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Tuesday 20 July 2004 21:08, Holger Waechtler wrote: well -- I still can't see the deep reason for this, the recent patches usually added ~20-100 lines of code complexity to each file, so where is the point of "getting rid" of something? There wasn't

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2004 01:25, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Tuesday 20 July 2004 21:08, Holger Waechtler wrote: wouldn't it be better to replace the from-scratch list-and-device handling in dvb_i2c.[hc] by the driver/bus infrastructure in 2.6

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-s USB Technotrend: unknown STC version V 2.2

2004-07-20 Thread Holger Waechtler
John Dalgliesh wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have bought a DVB-s of Technotrend USB, and have tried to install linuxtv.org driver, but it does not work, dmesg give me: ... ttusb_init_controller: unknown STC version V 2.2, please report! ... No signal is found them from scan

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-20 Thread Holger Waechtler
Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:04:02AM +0200, Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 00:09, Ralph Metzler wrote: No, I also considered this before implementing the FE_(UN)REGISTER stuff but adapters with more than one I2C bus/frontend will not work like this. It also makes t

[linux-dvb] Re: mt352, site updated, diff

2004-07-01 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: Wolfram Joost wrote: - .flags = I2C_M_NOSTART, + .flags = 0, If I understand the MT352 spec right i2c read transfers from the MT352 have to get executed without STOP condition (this scenario is called

[linux-dvb] Re: More than 4 DVB cards - again

2004-07-01 Thread Holger Waechtler
Michael Hunold wrote: Hello Irek, On 06/25/04 08:56, Irek Defee wrote: It is strange that this issue has been downgraded comparing to kernel 2.4. For me it’s a huge factor not to upgrade to 2.6:). The "problem" is that devfs in 2.4 has the "feature" that a device node is not tightly coupled to a

[linux-dvb] Re: mt352 and SkyStar2 (FlexCop IIB) oddities

2004-07-01 Thread Holger Waechtler
Wolfram Joost wrote: Hi, it works on boards with hardware i2c enabled. Changing the I2C_M_NOSTART to 0, as you did, is the right thing to do here. Ahh, OK. Please fix the i2c host driver to handle RESTART conditions properly instead of introducing dirty hacks in the device drivers, these will

[linux-dvb] Re: mt352, site updated, diff

2004-07-01 Thread Holger Waechtler
Wolfram Joost wrote: Hi, I updated the version on http://www.frokaschwei.net/avtv771/avermedia.html. I changed Christopher Pascoe's patch because I don't want to disable the recovery. Wolfram --- mt352.c.cvs 2004-06-28 20:

[linux-dvb] Re: Packaging linux-dvb drivers

2004-06-30 Thread Holger Waechtler
Aurelian Pop wrote: On Wednesday 30 June 2004 16:25, Aurelian Pop wrote: Hello, First of all, let me apologize if I'm a little off-topic. I would like to know with who should I talk about the details of including the dvb-drivers into a rpm package having other commercial software too. If (for any r

[linux-dvb] Re: AverMedia DVB-T 771 problems

2004-06-15 Thread Holger Waechtler
Wolfram Joost wrote: Hi, if i add: r = mt352_read_register (i2c, 0x7f); before: r = mt352_read_register (i2c, 0x00); the read of register 0x00 returns the same as the read of register 0x7f! And it appears that the "snr" values from above are actually the value of re

[linux-dvb] Re: AverMedia DVB-T 771 problems

2004-06-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
Jolse Maginnis wrote: Hi, I've purchased an AverMedia DVB-T 771, and I live in Tasmania, Australia, but I can't seem to get it to tune anything in linux. It works in winxp (I can tune nearly all the channels with my crap aerial), so it's got to be the driver. I'm using the patches from http://www.f

[linux-dvb] Re: Autoscanning, was [PATCH] mt352 TPS_GIVEN shifts were wrong

2004-06-07 Thread Holger Waechtler
Wolfram Joost wrote: Hi, btw: does anybody of you has an idea how we might make use of the automatic channel scan functionality of the MT352 under Linux, how we might need to extend the LinuxDVB API? I would add two ioctls: - FE_START_SCAN with the lowest and highest frequency to scan as paramter

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] mt352 TPS_GIVEN shifts were wrong

2004-06-07 Thread Holger Waechtler
Nathan Hand wrote: Would have helped if I'd attached the patch. manually applied to CVS. Can't test it though -- don't have a 2.6 kernel installed here... thanks for tracking this down; due to the well-working TPS autoprobing we never had this problem here. btw: does anybody of you has an idea

[linux-dvb] Re: Samsung/Zarlink MT-352 tuner/demodulator

2004-05-18 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Peter Urbanec wrote: I wanted to check if there is any work being done by anyone on supporting the Samsung/Zarlink MT-352 tuner/demodulator as used by a number of recently released cards. The Kworld V-Stream, DVico FusionHDTV and Avermedia A771 cards all seem to be ba

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] Ultra Light Encapsulation

2004-04-06 Thread Holger Waechtler
Michael Hunold wrote: Hello Hilmar, On 03/31/04 11:11, Hilmar Linder wrote: [...] diff -ru linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/include/linux/dvb/net.h linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0-ULE/include/linux/dvb/net.h --- linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/include/linux/dvb/net.h2004-01-17 17:59:46.0 +0100 +++ linuxtv-dvb-

[linux-dvb] Re: Q: to Frontend_info structure

2004-03-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Sunday 21 March 2004 14:20, Rainer.scherg wrote: > Hi, > > I have some questions to the frontend-info structure in the current > dvb-api3: > > How are the following frequency-variables defined? > > --- snip --- > 2.1.3 frontend information > > struct dvb_frontend_info { > char name[128]; > f

[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

2004-03-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Monday 15 March 2004 00:27, Andrew de Quincey wrote: > > So there must still be a change in the av7110 code, which does the DISEQC > on your card. As far as I can see none of the other changes to ves1x83 > should break anything. Just that there were _two_ driver issues here > complicated the mat

[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

2004-03-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Monday 15 March 2004 00:10, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Holger Waechtler wrote: > > On Sunday 14 March 2004 23:55, Andrew de Quincey wrote: > > > The problem with 1.1.0 is VDR isn't doing the full DISEQC init > > > sequence, and so no voltage was ever being

[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

2004-03-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Monday 15 March 2004 00:13, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Holger Waechtler wrote: > > > > The DiSEqC spec requires you to set the appropriate bus voltage before a > > DiSEqC command is sent. It also requires that the old-style SEC and > > DiSEqC commands are sent c

[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

2004-03-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Sunday 14 March 2004 23:55, Andrew de Quincey wrote: > > The problem with 1.1.0 is VDR isn't doing the full DISEQC init sequence, > and so no voltage was ever being sent to the LNB. that's definitely illegal. Holger -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscrib

[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

2004-03-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Sunday 14 March 2004 23:45, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Holger Waechtler wrote: > > > > As soon you submit the polarisation selection command (VOLTAGE_13V or > > VOLTAGE_18V) you already powered up the LNB. The only important thing is > > to maintain the delay time

[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

2004-03-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Sunday 14 March 2004 23:46, Andrew de Quincey wrote: > On Sunday 14 March 2004 22:36, Holger Waechtler wrote: > > > > As soon you submit the polarisation selection command (VOLTAGE_13V or > > VOLTAGE_18V) you already powered up the LNB. The only important thing is >

[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

2004-03-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Sunday 14 March 2004 23:38, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > When I compiled the latest VDR developer version with the dvb-kernel > header files, everything compiled just fine - so I would assume that there > was no change in the API (besides, it has always been emphasized that the > API did not cha

[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

2004-03-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Sunday 14 March 2004 23:35, Andrew de Quincey wrote: > > > > If you specify a bus voltage of 13 or 18V you definitely don't mean > > VOLTAGE_OFF but expect the LNBP working, everything else is a bug. > > Yeah, it seemed to have changed from being set to VOLTAGE_13 in the > initialisation tables

[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

2004-03-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Sunday 14 March 2004 23:22, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > > It doesn't make much sense to remove the power from the LNB > > > while sending the DiSEqC sequence, but luckily vdr doesn't > > > seem to do that ;-) So, I guess that 'v' is a

[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

2004-03-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Sunday 14 March 2004 13:11, Oliver Endriss wrote: > On Sunday 14 March 2004 10:27, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > From: "Heino Goldenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Helmut Auer wrote: > > > > These settings are not working for me, but the long version > > > > from Oliver will: > > > > > > > >

[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

2004-03-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Sunday 14 March 2004 14:45, Andrew de Quincey wrote: > On Sunday 14 March 2004 13:35, you wrote: > > Andrew de Quincey wrote: > > > > The two combinations below are working with the _unmodified_ ves1x93 > > > > code and also with my alps_bsvr2 mod. > > > > > > > > S13E11700 V 9750 v [E0 10

[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

2004-03-14 Thread Holger Waechtler
On Sunday 14 March 2004 23:02, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > There are some mandatory delays before and after sending > > the DiSEqC sequence. The Nokia API rolled all that in a simple > > and convenient ioctl which would allow the driver to do > > all the timing (so that applications cannot fuck

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

2004-03-09 Thread Holger Waechtler
Oliver Endriss wrote: On Monday 08 March 2004 21:34, Holger Waechtler wrote: Ralph Metzler wrote: Oliver Endriss writes: And, unless there is a hardware or firmware CSA descrambler on the card, you will never be able to decrypt pay-tv in a legal way. IANAL, but I don't think

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

2004-03-08 Thread Holger Waechtler
Ralph Metzler wrote: Oliver Endriss writes: > > Also: are there any > > budget cards already that have drivers that support CAMs? I have to admit that > > I don't know that. > > AFAIK there is _no_ budget card driver with CI support under linux. No public and GPLed ones. There are drivers for KN

[linux-dvb] Re: Frontend experimental patch v1

2004-03-05 Thread Holger Waechtler
Andrew de Quincey wrote: I have done some more tests arount crl_bit() in ves1x93 with my Rev 1.3 DVB-S (ves1893). Realy only one "soft reset" is needed for this demod (and i think for the ves1993 too) to aquire lock. But the ves1893 needs some short delay (according to the ves1893 appnote), up to

[linux-dvb] Re: mpeg documentation, ttusb_dec

2004-03-05 Thread Holger Waechtler
alve wrote: moin, is there any way to get a document describing the structure of mpeg streams (especially ps) in detail (for example length of headers, meaning of each bit in the headers) without paying 220 SFR to ISO? (or can anyone send me the ISO documents for free...?) The MPEG preview dra

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

2004-03-05 Thread Holger Waechtler
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: ... calling the PES unpacking process a 'remuxing' is kind of flattered, not? Forcing everybody to misuse the lowlevel-API instead of highlevel access just because the av711x driver

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

2004-03-05 Thread Holger Waechtler
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am playing around with the DVR device for playing back a TS which was recorded from the DVR device. ... The kernel is configured a an SMP Kernel and Preemptible feature. That's a r

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

2004-03-05 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i am playing around with the DVR device for playing back a TS which > was recorded from the DVR device. ... > The kernel is configured a an SMP Kernel and Preemptible feature. That's a recipe for disaster -- the dvr playback code in the a

[linux-dvb] Re: Holding tuned frequency after szap!

2004-03-04 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Andrew de Quincey wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 17:06, Kelvin Woods wrote: I'm sure I've read (on this list I believe) that after you tune your DVB card with szap the card will lose the frequency after a few seconds. This indeed is easily observable. If you d

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB on mips/cobalt

2004-03-04 Thread Holger Waechtler
Kieran Fulke wrote: hi folks, thought some of you might be interested to hear i have a wintv nova-t pci card running inside a cobalt qube2. (mips cpu, UK dvb-t) works nicely, and no problems at all. so i guess you can add MIPS to the list of working targets. wow, cool! do you use that thin

[linux-dvb] [Fwd: Re: Re: Another issue: frontend timeout value and low symbol rates]

2004-02-25 Thread Holger Waechtler
Andreas Share wrote: Andrew de Quincey wrote: Actually, the update_delay() is fine; its just that the TIMEOUT doesn't take into account how long it takes to write to the frontend itself... I put in some instrumentation, and its taking 25 jiffies to call FE_SET_FRONTEND... I've checked the front

[linux-dvb] Re: *****SPAM***** DVB device nodes

2004-02-25 Thread Holger Waechtler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've got kernel 2.6.2 up and running with the drivers install and xine installed and working ok, but apparently I need some device nodes for my card. I tried mknod - m 0660 /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0c 250 but this didn't seem to work. Is there anything else I have t

[linux-dvb] Re: Couple of frontend questions

2004-02-25 Thread Holger Waechtler
Andrew de Quincey wrote: Hi, the first version of the new frontend stuff is coming along nicely. I have a couple of remaining questions: Why is there an FE_RESET ioctl immediately after the FE_SET_FRONTEND in dvb_frontend_recover.. surely the frontend code itself should take care of performing

[linux-dvb] Re: Another issue: frontend timeout value and low symbol rates

2004-02-25 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Andrew de Quincey wrote: Well, the DVB API as specified by Nokia says that FE_SET_FRONTEND should start tuning, and the result (failure or success) is relayed to the application by means of an event with FE_GET_EVENT. I.e. one FE_SET_FRONTEND -> one FE_GET_EVENT. But it'

[linux-dvb] Re: Another issue: frontend timeout value and low symbol rates

2004-02-25 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: Andrew de Quincey wrote: If there _isn't_ a problem with breaking the Nokia API, I would be glad to have a look. If there is, all I have to do to fix my stuff is ignore the FE_TIMEDOUT bit. ;) just remove it, it's bogus anyway

[linux-dvb] Re: tda1004x and sys_close

2004-02-17 Thread Holger Waechtler
Bernd Bartmann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Stezenbach schrieb: | Bernd Bartmann wrote: | |>Johannes Stezenbach schrieb: |>| The home-grown firmware loader code in the various frontend drivers |>| is problematic and should be replaced by request_firmware(). This |>|

[linux-dvb] Re: SPAM Warning

2004-02-16 Thread Holger Waechtler
Guido Fiala wrote: Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2004 11:59 schrieb Robert Schlabbach: From: "Scott White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I got spammed today to an Email address I have only had for 4 days and only used on this list by a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just wanted to warn you to be careful as this list is obvio

[linux-dvb] Re: Problem installing driver, TT DVB-T Budget, Kernel 2.4.24

2004-02-15 Thread Holger Waechtler
Mattias Ernelli wrote: I have problems installing the drivers for A Technotrend WinDVB-T 1300 card. http://www.usa-x.org/1shop/images/t1300.jpg I have tried several combinations of kernels and linuxtv-dvb driver releases. The one that built properly on my system was linuxtv-dvb-1.1.0. After resol

[linux-dvb] Re: bt8xx unres syms / Re: Re: linuxtv-dvb-install-destdir.patch

2004-02-15 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Guido Draheim wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: See README.bt8xx. Hmmm, it still does not say how to go about it as a packager. As far as I understand it one should not use dvb-bt8xx on a kernel without the absolute latest fashion, so in 2.4.21 one should `rm dvb-bt8xx.

[linux-dvb] Re: linuxtv-dvb-apps-showconfigs.patch

2004-02-15 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Guido Draheim wrote: here is a patch that will make `dvbscan` to list the series of initial-data-files being installed in the system. It works on all of /etc/dvb/dvb-?/* /usr/share/dvb/dvb-?/* and of course that /usr/share/doc/packages/dvb/dvb-?/* ... it may help user to

[linux-dvb] Re: usage count misbehaviour with skystar2 / mt312 / dvb-core modules

2004-02-13 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Niklas Peinecke wrote: Hernan A. Perez Masci wrote: I've found a problem with skystar2 / mt312 modules (DVB version 1.1.0) with the kernel 2.4.24. Let's first insert the skystar2 module: skynet:~# modprobe skystar2 skynet:~# lsmod Module Size Used b

[linux-dvb] Re: New Initial-tuning-datafile for Finland/Kuopio (DVB-T)

2004-02-11 Thread Holger Waechtler
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hello! Attached is the initial-tuning-datafile for DVB-T Finland / Kuopio. applied to CVS, module dvb-apps. Many thanks! Holger -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.

[linux-dvb] Re: ANN: dvbstream-0.5 and dvbtune-0.5 released

2004-02-11 Thread Holger Waechtler
Dave Chapman wrote: After about two years of only working with the sourceforge CVS, I thought I would make some official releases of dvbtune and dvbstream. They available as part of the Sourceforge "dvbtools" project. The download page is: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=

[linux-dvb] Re: High BER's & Glitching with 2.6 kernel, better with 2.4 and 1.0.0-pre2 (Nova-T)

2004-02-11 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Maybe Holger can comment on this? Hmm, I did not followed the discussion, but your suggestions sound plausible. Does anybody remembers why the offset has been changed? Well, if *you* don't remember why *you* ch

[linux-dvb] Re: dvbstream compile problem

2004-02-11 Thread Holger Waechtler
Andrew G. Wilson wrote: Any chance we could do a quick patch release with this change, as I'm sure this will quickly become a FAQ otherwise. you mean a dvbstream release? Holger -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] cards.txt

2004-02-11 Thread Holger Waechtler
Niklas Peinecke wrote: Hi, attached is a small patch for cards.txt, wherein I added some details about recently supported cards & frontends. thanks, applied. Can you please send unified diffs next time (cvs -q diff -pu)? Holger -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "uns

[linux-dvb] Re: Tuning problems

2004-02-10 Thread Holger Waechtler
Torbjörn Jansson wrote: I have been trying to figure out why the windows software gets better signal quality than the linux drivers on some channels. There is a few things in ves1820.c, function tuner_set_tv_freq that I don't understand. The ifreq variable, is that the reference crystal on the sp56

[linux-dvb] Re: AMD64 and DVB

2004-02-10 Thread Holger Waechtler
Oliver Endriss wrote: On Monday 09 February 2004 22:36, Max Nickel wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 22:13, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:25:29PM +0100, Max Nickel wrote: Hi, it's me again. I still can't get the card to work properly. First of all i have to say i had it workin

[linux-dvb] Re: behaviour of TDA10045 using high channels

2004-02-05 Thread Holger Waechtler
Pete Martin wrote: Has anyone had experience of using the tda10045 based boards on some of the higher frequency UHF channels? We are seing some problems and I was wondering if this common, or if I should consider upgrading my drivers. We have observed in Spain, where the upper channel is 66 which c

[linux-dvb] Re: Testers wanted

2004-02-03 Thread Holger Waechtler
Norbert Schechner wrote: Am Montag, 26. Januar 2004 15:11 schrieb Holger Waechtler: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: we're preparing the 1.1.0 release in the CVS repository. In order to avoid too many bugfix-releases I'd like to invite you to test the release code be

[linux-dvb] Re: Driver problems

2004-02-03 Thread Holger Waechtler
Jussi Alanärä wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Torbjörn Jansson wrote: In the syslog I get a line like: "DVB: VES1820(0): pwm=0x40" I'll have to try changing it. If this works, maybe a few lines in some readme file coud be added to the dvb drivers so that others that run into the same problem atleast k

[linux-dvb] Re: Driver problems

2004-02-03 Thread Holger Waechtler
Torbjörn Jansson wrote: Do you have one of the cards where the PWM value stored in the card's EEPROM needs to be overridden? I don't remember exactly for which cards this was required or improved things, maybe you want to check the mail archives or just try to override it using the 'pwm='

[linux-dvb] Re: Driver problems

2004-02-02 Thread Holger Waechtler
Torbjörn Jansson wrote: I have tried again and move the dvb card to my windows machine and it works much better, no bad reception and no channel tuning problems. But I want it to work on linux and not windows. Do you have one of the cards where the PWM value stored in the card's EEPROM needs to be

[linux-dvb] Re: Hauppauge DVB-S Nexus and lirc

2004-02-01 Thread Holger Waechtler
Rob Shortt wrote: Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: Hi, Hi! I want to use the Hauppauge remote connected to the Hauppage card. Is this possible at all? It sure is. I have done tonnes of searching, reading, hacking, and have spend the last several hours getting my Hauppauge romote working with my

[linux-dvb] Re: TDA10046 driver

2004-02-01 Thread Holger Waechtler
Rolf Fiedler wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 19:13, Andrew de Quincey wrote: Hi, I've just committed the new tda1004x driver. This version supports the TDA10046H as well now. Firmware file is the same as that for tda10045h BTW. I've managed to get video streaming off my Nova-USB-t v2.1, but it s

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-kernel and udev

2004-02-01 Thread Holger Waechtler
Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: Hi, I just installed udev onto my gentoo distri. It seems the dvb (compiled into kernel) devices in linux 2.6.2-rc2 don't appear in /sys as the nodes don't appear in /dev. I just create them manually rigth now every start up with the code ripped from makenapi or wh

[linux-dvb] Re: Problem with Nova-T & 2.6.1

2004-02-01 Thread Holger Waechtler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I hadn't recompiled the driver. I was hoping not to have to (whenever I try to compile drivers it never seems to work properly, almost certainly my fault though). Under some circumstances (e.g. a 2.4 kernel without the ability to load the firmware on request) the firmwa

[linux-dvb] Re: Problem with Nova-T & 2.6.1

2004-01-30 Thread Holger Waechtler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Holger Waechtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Koivisto Kimmo &lang=en">[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : Hi I've been reading various things about how to get a DVB card working, and am know quite confused as to what is actua

[linux-dvb] Re: Problem with Nova-T & 2.6.1

2004-01-30 Thread Holger Waechtler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Koivisto Kimmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : Hi I've been reading various things about how to get a DVB card working, and am know quite confused as to what is actually required. I would like to avoid having to compile a driver if at all possible (from reading around it se

[linux-dvb] Re: Losless Section Demux version 1.4

2004-01-29 Thread Holger Waechtler
Andreas Oberritter wrote: Hi, as we are living with this losless(?) section demux v1.4 since two months now without having a solution for the broken memcopy and crc32 acceleration hooks, I propose to remove the possibility to use these hooks completely to avoid confusion and do crc32 entirely in s

[linux-dvb] Re: [YET-ANOTHER-UPDATE] Avermedia HOWTO

2004-01-29 Thread Holger Waechtler
Mark Edwards wrote: Thanks Gavin... babyurl's installed, tested, and working... I commited this version to CVS, file is now dvb-kernel/linux/Documentation/dvb/avermedia.txt. Please let us know if this was the wrong one... Holger -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

[linux-dvb] Re: TDLB7/TDMB7 owners needed for testing

2004-01-29 Thread Holger Waechtler
Juri Haberland wrote: Juri Haberland wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: Has somebody a card with ALPS TDLB7 and/or a USB box with TDMB7 handy and can test these patches? Will do so later this day (TDLB7). Sorry, cannot test today, but as Jürgen already tested it, I think it's not really nece

[linux-dvb] Re: Testers wanted

2004-01-29 Thread Holger Waechtler
Arne Gellhaus wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: we're preparing the 1.1.0 release in the CVS repository. In order to avoid too many bugfix-releases I'd like to invite you to test the release code before we'll put it on the website. To do so please do this: does this driver work

[linux-dvb] Re: Example modifications to support request_firmware

2004-01-29 Thread Holger Waechtler
Ralph Metzler wrote: Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > But the latter is probably the better interpretation of the API > > intention and on the long term the only way I see to cleanly load > > firmwares into MPEG decoders or DSPs in STBs without PCI or USB or i2c > > bus (or any other bus with

[linux-dvb] Re: Example modifications to support request_firmware

2004-01-29 Thread Holger Waechtler
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: As I read the device.h API it requires you to define a subsystem class - in our case either 'i2c' or 'dvb'. 'i2c' would add again a dependency to the kernel-i2c core, defining our own device class 'dvb&

[linux-dvb] Re: Example modifications to support request_firmware

2004-01-28 Thread Holger Waechtler
Andrew de Quincey wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2004 16:21, Holger Waechtler wrote: Andrew de Quincey wrote: Hi, this patch is an example of how the changes to support request_firmware might be done. I've only made the neccessary changes to certain example devices. It probably won'

[linux-dvb] Re: 2.6 request_firmware and frontends

2004-01-28 Thread Holger Waechtler
Holger Waechtler wrote: Andrew de Quincey wrote: I just spent a while trying to figure out how I would go about using the 2.6 request_firmware() calls for the tda1004x driver. As far as I can see, its impossible right now. The problem is you have to pass a struct device* into request_firmware

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