> I am happy to see that you and Andrew were able to determine that the > problem with dvb_attach was due to an old version of module_init_tools, > however, I am also very interested to hear about what was wrong with the > vanilla 2.6.18-rc kernel, that lead you to install the newer modules > from linuxtv.org . i had two initial problems with 2.6.18-rc5 drivers: 1. initial problem was due to the DvICO card not being recognized correctly. however, since then i found out what the issue was; something had put "options cx88xx card=21" into /etc/modprobe.conf which caused my card to be incorrectly identified (it is actually card #15 & is autodetected correctly without any card= override). 2. analog bt848 card (used for ZoneMinder) would be getting overflow errors & would be unreliable, eventually failing. errors such as: bttv2: OCERR @ 3dcc5000,bits: OFLOW FDSR OCERR* bttv2: OCERR @ 3dcc5000,bits: HSYNC OFLOW FDSR OCERR* i since ascertained that the HDD used for ZM recordings was operating in PIO & not UDMA mode. quite likely that any large amount of movement out in the front yard (and hence recording activity) would trigger overruns. my other reason for tip-of-tree was to start reverse-engineering SAA7162E & i figured tip-of-tree was a better place to start from. having said that, only Richard has that card at the moment i will check with 2.6.18-rc5 drivers now. > Richard Dale speaks of a problem that he had in 2.6.18-rc6 with his > DViCO card... Richard has a slightly different DvICO card - the 2x T-Plus models, whereas i have the DviCO T-1 model (+ 2 other DVB + analog). cheers, lincoln. > > http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-September/012639.html > > ...Is this the same problem that you had experienced? If not, could you > provide some more information? > > I tried 2.6.18-rc6 on my hardware last night and saw no such > problems.... but if this is indeed a problem in 2.6.18, I'd like to find > it right away. > > Thanks, > > Michael Krufky _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
