Jos? Luis Bolos wrote: >I was the one having problems with the 300i, and I manage to get it >running with 2.6.12.5 and 20050627, but I'm having the same problems >as you, there's extreme blockyness and artifacts in audio and video. I >was starting to think than that may be reception problems, but maybe >it isn't. The card is running ok in analog mode. I have tried to get >the card running in windows with pinnacle's software (which is utterly >cr**, btw) but it refuses to store the detected digital channels. > >Are they (the artifacts) a known bug? is there a way to get the card >running correctly? Any help is appreciated. > > If I tune the card under 2.6.12/20050627, and then reboot into 2.6.14.1 + current CVS, the output looks fine, and works for about 10 seconds, so it looks like the artefacts are fixed in the current CVS code. It then stutters, and stops. I get this sort of thing in the kernel message log (saa7134 i2c_debug=2): kernel: start xfer kernel: send address kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c data => 0x3c kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= BUSY last message repeated 4 times kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= DONE_WRITE kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= DONE_WRITE kernel: write bytes kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c data => 0x1 kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= BUSY last message repeated 6 times kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= ARB_LOST kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= ARB_LOST kernel: mt352_read_register: readreg error (reg=1, ret==-5) kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= ARB_LOST kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c reset kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= ARB_LOST kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat => ARB_LOST kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= ARB_LOST kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= IDLE kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c attr => NOP kernel: start xfer kernel: send address kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c data => 0x3c kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= BUSY last message repeated 15 times kernel: mt352_read_register: readreg error (reg=0, ret==-5) kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= TO_ARB Which again looks i2c problems with the tuner, I think. Anyone got any ideas? Anything at all? I don't really know much about i2c (apart from the fact that it is a low speed serial bus, with 2 wires)... If not, then I'd guess the next job is to get the MT352, and SAA7134 data sheets and/or errata? Tim.
