Allan Stirling wrote: > Manu Abraham wrote: > >> Islam Amer wrote: >> >>> Hi all. First of all I'd like to thank you for all your efforts. I am >>> a happy twinhan user :) , I had reported earlier that my card >>> didn't work on linux. I am now using it perfectly with 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 >>> >>> I figured out all the stuff about scan and szap and mplayer. I can scan >>> transponders with vertical polarization, and watch channels on them that >>> have vertical polarization perfectly. >>> >>> But horizontal scans fail and even if I write channel information >>> manually szap or mplayer fail to tune. >>> >> >> Can you check whether the attached patches fixes that.. patches to be >> applied in the incremental order only.. >> >> Should be applied either to a vanilla 2.6.12, since all CVS changes >> for the dst went in to mainline.. >> >> Or can be applied against the latest CVS, but would require the bttv >> patches too, to work properly > > Tried these patches. Another (budget) card gives the following: > > 10714 MHz H | signal 48568 | snr db33 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | LOCK > 10729 MHz V | signal 49921 | snr dfec | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | LOCK > 10743 MHz H | signal 46722 | snr df0e | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | LOCK > What application are you using to zap ? Doesn't look like szap ... > In less than a second per transponder. > > With a virgin 2.6.12, I get locks on vertical channels only (reasonably > fast, with no errors in the log that I remember). Horizontal channels > don't tune. > > With these patches, I get no locks at all :( > > This is with a DSTCI card... > > I get like this on my DST-CI, [root@deploy szap]# ./szap -a 0 -c ~/channels.conf -r -x "TMC2" reading channels from file '/root/channels.conf' zapping to 7 'TMC2': sat 0, frequency = 11996 MHz H, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x00cf, apid = 0x0133 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' zap_to: Polarity=[0] Sat Number=[0] status 1f | signal 5700 | snr 19a1 | ber fffffffe | unc fffffffe | FE_HAS_LOCK Strange .. Dominique reported that his card (DST-CI) worked perfectly alright, a while earlier .. Ok, are you able to scan, i mean do you get a list of channels ... ? The lock flag what you mean, has not changed at all when you do a zap.. Dominique, can you give it a shot and see what's the status on your DST-CI ? Manu
