> BTW, the loop: > for (i = 500; i-- > 0 && !(cx24110_readreg(state,0x76)&0x40) ; ) > ; /* wait for LNB ready */ > > hammers mercilessly on the i2c bus, it might be worth to > add an msleep(1) and descrease i to 13 resp. 100 (burst > lenght is 12.5ms, DiSEqC msg is 54ms typically but depends on the > message), or not? Hi, I've included this improvement in the patch and it is working for me. Additionally I've made the register writes conditional, this could save a few cycles. --- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cx24110.c.orig 2005-07-11 22:26:25.000000000 +0200 +++ drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cx24110.c 2005-07-25 08:26:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -398,7 +398,8 @@ return -EINVAL; rv = cx24110_readreg(state, 0x77); - cx24110_writereg(state, 0x77, rv|0x04); + if (!(rv & 0x04)) + cx24110_writereg(state, 0x77, rv | 0x04); rv = cx24110_readreg(state, 0x76); cx24110_writereg(state, 0x76, ((rv & 0x90) | 0x40 | bit)); @@ -418,13 +419,16 @@ cx24110_writereg(state, 0x79 + i, cmd->msg[i]); rv = cx24110_readreg(state, 0x77); - cx24110_writereg(state, 0x77, rv|0x04); + if (rv & 0x04) { + cx24110_writereg(state, 0x77, rv & ~0x04); + msleep(30); + } rv = cx24110_readreg(state, 0x76); cx24110_writereg(state, 0x76, ((rv & 0x90) | 0x40) | ((cmd->msg_len-3) & 3)); - for (i=500; i-- > 0 && !(cx24110_readreg(state,0x76)&0x40);) - ; /* wait for LNB ready */ + for (i=100; i-- > 0 && !(cx24110_readreg(state,0x76)&0x40);) + msleep(1); /* wait for LNB ready */ return 0; } Adam