Hi, I think I need your help. I'm running a KNC-1 DVB-S Budget Card with the budget-av driver from kernel 2.6.12(-gentoo-r6) but I have tried with kernel-included and CVS versions of the drivers since 2.6.8 Some channels work pretty fine (ProSieben, KABEL1, SAT1, DSF) but others show ugly fragments in their streams. In some programs they appear only occasionally (e.g "Das Erste" most of the time) some are unwatchable (ARTE, Eurosport, ZDF, RTL...) Strange thing is: My brother has the same card on same distribution and it works on all channels. On the other hand it can't be a hardware problem, because my card works all fine on Windows. Here is some logging output. I can provide recorded example streams if requested. output of dmesg: ... saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb /w video in'. ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 12 (level, low) -> IRQ 12 saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem e1814000 (revision 1, irq 12) (0x1131,0x4f56). DVB: registering new adapter (KNC1 DVB-S). adapter failed MAC signature check encoded MAC from EEPROM was ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff budget-av: ci interface initialised. KNC1-0: MAC addr = 00:09:d6:6a:07:d6 DVB: registering frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)... ... ======================================================= lsmod: module Size Used by budget_av 13632 1 saa7146_vv 45504 1 budget_av video_buf 17540 1 saa7146_vv firmware_class 7872 1 budget_av budget_core 7236 1 budget_av saa7146 14792 3 budget_av,saa7146_vv,budget_core ttpci_eeprom 2240 1 budget_core stv0299 10632 1 budget_av tda10021 5956 1 budget_av tda1004x 14276 1 budget_av Would be glad to solve this problem together. Regards, Ben