Andrew de Quincey wrote: >>claimed MTBF is surely 5-10 years for such chips. >>more likely your card got overheated in summer in the pc case... ;) >>this would cause chip damage, or electrostatics. > > > The machines are well ventilated: they're in air conditioned comms. rooms at > multiple sites - I don't think they're overheating. It is a major pain > though :( > > so. back. with heatsink. picture attached. -no difference at all and the ves is at 25? with heatsink, without surely below 60? C (limit). xxx Q: i want to increase femon polling frequency to plot graphs, changed in femon code (usleep 100000), but the driver reports only 1/sec, therere some "wait" queues but i cant find constants, where to change that? thx. xxx BTW, the sun came out half an hour before and i had reception on ard digital 1+ , now clouds are back and reception is gone again, look at this (str): ard digital 1 extra channel: tatus 1f | signal ffff | snr c4c4 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr c2c2 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr bfbf | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr b9b9 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 00 | signal a9a9 | snr b3b3 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal a6a6 | snr b3b3 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 1e | signal fcfc | snr baba | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr bcbc | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1e | signal ffff | snr b6b6 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 00 | signal adad | snr b4b4 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal aaaa | snr b4b4 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal a6a6 | snr b4b4 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal a3a3 | snr b5b5 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal a0a0 | snr b5b5 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal 9d9d | snr b6b6 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal 9a9a | snr b7b7 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal 9797 | snr b4b4 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal 9494 | snr b4b4 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal 9191 | snr b6b6 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal 8e8e | snr b8b8 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal 8b8b | snr b7b7 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 06 | signal 8787 | snr b6b6 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal 8585 | snr b7b7 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | status 00 | signal 8282 | snr b7b7 | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff | see the signal? its floating! is ber 009ffff6 a special signal? which? kerrang! channel: schorpp@tom1:~$ femon using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' FE: VLSI VES1820 DVB-C (CABLE) FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr e8e8 | ber 000015c2 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr eaea | ber 0000023a | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr e9e9 | ber 0000023a | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr e9e9 | ber 0000023a | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr eaea | ber 000004ec | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr eaea | ber 000004ec | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr eaea | ber 000002ee | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr eaea | ber 000002ee | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal ffff | snr e8e8 | ber 000002ee | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK schorpp@tom1:~$ there is no problem with the card, its the provider - kabelbw. q.e.d. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: img_00081.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 17183 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20050724/c07f0b24/img_00081.jpg
