Zoilo Gomez wrote:
Manu Abraham wrote:
Zoilo Gomez wrote:
It seems to work now, but weird weird weird ...!
At first, the dump in dmesg (that I have posted before) suddenly
changed the following line:
=> bt878_probe: card id=[0], [ NULL ] has DVB functions
At this point I am not sure about the exact message, but it looked
more or less like that. "My card has died on me" I thought. Several
reboots, with or without power on/off made no difference.
Then, in despair, I decided to install it in a Windows XP machine,
only to see if it would work, with the supplied driver CD. Driver
installation seemed to start well, but then install rebooted the
machine, and after that it complained that there was no card in the
PC ! Dead like a doornail, I thought.
Just for the sake of it I put it back in my Linux machine, started
the drivers and ... lo and behold !! It works ! dmesg now suddenly
lists a lot more info than ever before, and /dev/dvb/* files are
being created by udev.
Probably modules didn't get unloaded properly and hence didn't get
loaded properly, but that's when your reboot helped.
No, I had rebooted many many times in the same situation.
Could it be that the Windows install program has written something
into the card eeprom that was necessary to make it work ?!
No, nothing of that sort is possible.
I think that my card is flaky.
there is a probability
After some reboots, it works fine. But after other reboots it cannot
find the tuner, and fails. Once it even crashed on trying to load the
drivers (stuck during boot on loading dvb-bt8xx).
Something else is wrong. A broken card doesn't explain such behaviour.
when you have a severe communication failure, there will be an ASIC
crash , the recovery which is only possible after a cold boot. But
recently, i havent seen such communication errors.
A broken card might also explain why card id=[0], [ NULL ] suddenly
showed up. This problem persisted after reboot (even with power-off).
this can happen only if the bt878 is screwed up, but well there are
other bttv driver issues, probably that might explain the problems that
you are seeing.
Has anyone seen the same kind of flakyness with this card? It could also
be a hardware design problem of course, or it could have to do with the
kernel version I am using (2.6.17.5)
By the way, the card now also works (*if* it works) when I pull in all
the drivers by a simple 'modprobe dvb-bt8xx' (most of the time), without
any special parameters etc.
should work as well. gave you the foolproof way just to make sure
nothing goes wrong
Manu
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