Ralph Scharpf wrote: > 1. Sometimes there is only a black screen delivered from vdr. Often I am able > to use vdr as usual (start recording, start playback, OSD etc.) but there is > no picture of current TV program at all. Sometimes vdr even doesn't react to > anything. > > 2. The are some situations where a still picture is shown with a small bar on > upper border that changes. > > Sometimes I could get rid of the problems by restarting vdr. Somtimes I have > to reload the module dvb-ttpci. Sometimes the still picture effect solves > itself. In neither case the vdr watchdog is released. > > When I run the femon plugin in such a situation I see that S/N and SNR are > well and the status signals (Lock etc.) too. When unmounting the satellite > cable all signals go down to 0 and the status displays become red. After > reconnecting everything is ok again and I get immediatly a picture. ... > Jul 20 16:42:29 freud kernel: dvb-ttpci: __av7110_send_fw_cmd(): timeout > waiting for COMMAND idle > Jul 20 16:42:29 freud kernel: dvb-ttpci: av7110_send_fw_cmd(): > av7110_send_fw_cmderror -110 ... > I would like to find out whether these problems are known or if I have a bad > piece of hardware. I also would be willing to offer my hardware for a certain > time when it would help t osolve the problems. Perhaps all developers have > different cards. These are more or less known (symptoms vary). Did the 261d firmware work better for you? Johannes
