> >>The periods used to vary, don't know what exactly caused them to vary
> >>either. The variations used to happen something like what you said 10 ~
> >>12 hours or sometime it was 48 hours. But 72 hours seemed the maximum
> >>that it would go many times.
> >
> > Interesting - thats exactly it.. so its across completely different card
> > architectures!? (I assume you're still talking about the twinhan cards
> > here)
>
> Exactly.. I am talking about different firmware based ones too FTA and
> CI based.. different generations too.. Regarding that issue i' am almost
> tied up in knots... :-(
>
> I had a revision AV7110 1.3 card, which was blown when i received itself
> from Galaxis as a sample given to one of our guys. Even an lspci did not
> show anything at all, on some motherboards inserting the card into the
> PCI slot itself would result in a hung BIOS. After that i decided that,
> i would never again go with one of those FF cards. (eventhough they are
> the same TT-PCI cards remarketed)
>
> That was the time i first started up with DVB, and in this region could
> not see any other hardware other than Twinhan and got my first card as
> well as suggested for many others as well as my company too. But the
> biggest problem their was drivers, whether be it Windows or Linux. well
> you know the rest..
OK, my hack doesn't help. I used the following patch in dvb_frontend.c:
Index: dvb_frontend.c
===================================================================
RCS
file: /cvs/linuxtv/dvb-kernel/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c,v
retrieving revision 1.96
diff -a -u -r1.96 dvb_frontend.c
--- dvb_frontend.c 17 Nov 2004 14:30:33 -0000 1.96
+++ dvb_frontend.c 7 Jun 2005 16:29:35 -0000
@@ -507,9 +507,10 @@
else {
/* if we _WERE_ tuned, but now don't have a
lock,
* need to zigzag */
- fe->state = FESTATE_ZIGZAG_FAST;
- fe->started_auto_step = fe->auto_step;
- check_wrapped = 0;
+ fe->state = FESTATE_RETUNE;
+ dvb_frontend_init (fe);
+ printk("DVB: LOST LOCK - attempting
retune\n");
+ continue;
}
}
But, it just sits there printing "DVB LOST LOCK". Of course when I retune it
works perfectly! This time, it only took about 30 mins to lose the lock
though.
