Nico Sabbi wrote: > Rainer Menzner wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> first of all, I'm a newbie WRT Linux-DVB, so if this is a known problem, >> please excuse posting here ... >> >> I have a hybrid Medion SAA7134 and I use DVB-t. The antenna etc. is OK. >> Using Power Cinema under MS I receive good results. >> >> Under Linux, also basically all works. However, I can't solve a few >> problems: >> >> 1) The video signal shows arbitrary colored regions every once in a >> while (a few >> seconds). Sometimes these corrupted regions are in a larger rectangle, >> sometimes >> organized in a line, sometimes sprinkled over the whole image, there >> is no rule. >> >> 2) The audio is disturbed by dropouts and squeak, also every few seconds. >> >> Aside from these problems, video and audio are perfect. The corruption >> appears also >> when using tzap to record a TS directly to a file, so I assume it is >> not a >> display / playback problem. Also, after such disturbances, the stream >> is good again, it >> is not ripped off. It i >> >> I have played with renicing dvb[0] or the tzap, but to no avail. The >> recording >> program and the dvb process just use 10% of CPU time at most. I have >> no further >> ideas and I really would appreciate recording under Linux. >> >> Below is an excerpt from dmesg-output: >> >> Linux version 2.6.13-15-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 >> 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005 >> >> [snip] >> >> > > make sure you are using a very recent cvs checkout, because Hartmutt > recently > fixed a serious bug in the management of TS (broken DMA or something > similar). > It works very well for me for channels that my card can receive > I downloaded the latest patches yesterday and recompiled the kernel, which did not solve the problem. But now I get a message about an invalid firmware version. Here's the output of dmesg: - Begin dmesg output ---------------------------------------------------------- Linux version 2.6.13-15-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Mon Nov 7 19:32:19 CET 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [snip] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[5] MMIO=[f2014000-f20147ff] Max Packet=[4096] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:07.0[A] -> Link [LNK4] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 saa7134[0]: found at 0000:01:07.0, rev: 1, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf2015000 saa7134[0]: subsystem: 16be:0003, board: Medion 7134 [card=12,autodetected] saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 0 saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: be 16 03 00 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92 saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 ff 00 01 50 32 79 01 3c ca 50 saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 03 01 00 06 ff 00 1f 02 51 96 2b saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: a7 58 7a 1f 03 8e 84 5e da 7a 04 b3 05 87 b2 3c saa7134[0] Board has DVB-T saa7134[0] Tuner type is 63 : chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7134[0]) tuner 2-0061: type set to 63 (Philips FMD1216ME MK3 Hybrid Tuner) usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86 saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2] saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0 saa7134[0]: registered device radio0 hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) [snip] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54818 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 46987 DVB: registering new adapter (saa7134[0]). DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)... ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] [snip] tda1004x: found firmware revision ff -- invalid tda1004x: booting from eeprom tda1004x: found firmware revision 26 -- ok - End dmesg output --------------------------------------------------------- Does this mean the wrong firmware is loaded? My link in /lib/firmware points to dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261f, which is the latest version. -Rainer
