Hello Miernik , could you solve your problem? I have the Siemens DVB-C card and the same Problem. I try to use it for a vdr. Do you remember which kernel you were using in April? I have bad reception with 2.6.12 + DVB-Patches and basically no reception with 2.6.13 + DVB-Patches. Thanks Christian On Sepember 21 Miernik wrote: > I have a DVB-S card which is recognized like this when loading the driver: > > saa7146: register extension 'dvb'. > PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 0000:00:09.0 > saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem d107e000 (revision 1, irq 12) (0x13c2,0x1002). > DVB: registering new adapter (Technotrend/Hauppauge WinTV DVB-S rev1.3 SE). > adapter has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:3d:10:cb > dvb-ttpci: info @ card 0: firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, app > 8000261f > dvb-ttpci: firmware @ card 0 supports CI link layer interface > dvb-ttpci: adac type set to 0 @ card 0 > saa7146_vv: saa7146 (0): registered device video0 [v4l2] > ves1x93: Detected ves1893a rev2 > DVB: registering frontend 0 (VLSI VES1x93 DVB-S)... > dvb-ttpci: found av7110-0. > > I use DVB driver from standard Debian latest kernel in current sid, I > didn't compile anything in it myself. > > I use this firmware: > http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/firmware/dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261f > > jaworz:~$ uname -a > Linux jaworz 2.6.12-1-386 #1 Tue Sep 6 14:35:54 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux > jaworz:~$ > > > And what happens is this: > > jaworz:~# szap -i > reading channels from file '/root/.szap/channels.conf' > > >>> BBC World > > zapping to 168 'BBC World': > sat 0, frequency = 12597 MHz V, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x00a3, apid = > 0x005c > using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' > __av7110_send_fw_cmd: timeout waiting on busy MSG QUEUE > dvb-ttpci: av7110_send_fw_cmd(): av7110_send_fw_cmd error -1 > dvb-ttpci: av7110_fw_cmd error -1 > av7110_wait_msgstate: timeout waiting for MSGSTATE 0040 > __av7110_send_fw_cmd: timeout waiting on busy MSG QUEUE > dvb-ttpci: av7110_send_fw_cmd(): av7110_send_fw_cmd error -1 > dvb-ttpci: av7110_fw_cmd error -1 > __av7110_send_fw_cmd: timeout waiting on busy MSG QUEUE > dvb-ttpci: av7110_send_fw_cmd(): av7110_send_fw_cmd error -1 > dvb-ttpci: av7110_fw_cmd error -1 > __av7110_send_fw_cmd: timeout waiting on busy MSG QUEUE > dvb-ttpci: av7110_send_fw_cmd(): av7110_send_fw_cmd error -1 > dvb-ttpci: av7110_fw_cmd error -1 > av7110_wait_msgstate: timeout waiting for MSGSTATE 0040 > __av7110_send_fw_cmd: timeout waiting on busy MSG QUEUE > dvb-ttpci: av7110_send_fw_cmd(): av7110_send_fw_cmd error -1 > dvb-ttpci: av7110_fw_cmd error -1 > __av7110_send_fw_cmd: timeout waiting on busy MSG QUEUE > dvb-ttpci: av7110_send_fw_cmd(): av7110_send_fw_cmd error -1 > dvb-ttpci: av7110_fw_cmd error -1 > status 1f | signal 6767 | snr c2c2 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000064 | > FE_HAS_LOCK > > > > > No picture is shown with xawtv or fbtv, also no sound is on the > speakers connected to the jack on the card. > > I remember that in April 2005 I used this card with the kernel that was > in Debian GNU/Linux sid then, the same way that I try now, and then it > worked. > > So I think some bug was introduced since April, or I must have messed > up something (the system was completely reinstalled since then, it was > even a different motherboard, CPU, RAM, video card and monitor), but > anyway, what is the problem? > > I also tried the older firmware, latest which was there in April 2005, > that I used then: > http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/firmware/dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261d > but the only difference is that there is only a much shorter, one line > error message, and only in kern.log, does not appear on the screen. It > is like this: > > Sep 21 21:01:20 localhost kernel: av7110_wait_msgstate: timeout waiting for > MSGSTATE 0040 > > But maybe the difference is because I didn't reload driver after reboot, > or something. I rebooted after changing firmware in /lib/firmware/
