[linux-dvb] Re: Reading from 4 cards simultaneously?

2004-02-24 Thread Manfred Petz
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Jon Burgess wrote: | I have 4 budget Nova-T PCI cards in my PC and it works OK. This is with | a reasonably spec'd normal desktop motherboard with a Intel 865G chipset | with a single standard 32bit/33MHz PCI bus (Gigabyte GA-8IG1000 Pro). | I'm running two servers with 4 Nov

[linux-dvb] Re: Reading from 4 cards simultaneously?

2004-02-24 Thread Jon Burgess
I have 4 budget Nova-T PCI cards in my PC and it works OK. This is with a reasonably spec'd normal desktop motherboard with a Intel 865G chipset with a single standard 32bit/33MHz PCI bus (Gigabyte GA-8IG1000 Pro). You could try changing the DMA burst settings. I believe the default settings re

[linux-dvb] Re: Reading from 4 cards simultaneously?

2004-02-23 Thread Johann Hanne
Hi, i've tried setting the PCI latency timer for all cards from 0x10 to 0xf0 with 0x10 steps. It did not help, the behaviour remains. In the meanwhile I've tried out kernel 2.6.3, which also shows exactly the same effect. I've also played around with setting static IRQs in the BIOS without succes

[linux-dvb] Re: Reading from 4 cards simultaneously?

2004-02-23 Thread Johann Hanne
Hi, i've made sure that they don't share any IRQ (see my last message). Can you give me the 'lspci -vv' output from your four board system?? Thanks... Cheers, Jonny > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:43:21 +0100, Johann Hanne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm reading the entire transport stream from ev

[linux-dvb] Re: Reading from 4 cards simultaneously?

2004-02-09 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:43:21 +0100, Johann Hanne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm reading the entire transport stream from every card by using the dummy PID > 8192 on the demux device and I use poll() calls to check if data is ready on > some dvr device. But after opening the fourth device, no mo

[linux-dvb] Re: Reading from 4 cards simultaneously?

2004-02-09 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Johann Hanne wrote: > > i'm running a box (Pentium 3 800 MHz) with four DVB-budget-cards (2xDVB-S, > 2xDVB-C) with Kernel 2.4.24 and linuxtv-dvb-drivers 1.1.0. Everything (tuning > via the frontend device and reading of the TS via the dvr device) works fine > as long as I only read data from th