Mike Choy wrote: > Mark Howells wrote: > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: linux-dvb-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx >>> [mailto:linux-dvb-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Choy >>> Sent: 27 September 2006 22:02 >>> To: linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx >>> Subject: Freecom usb dvb-t hang usb id 14aa:0221 >>> >>> Hi Team >>> >>> My Freecom usb dvb-t stick seems to hang the system after >>> upgrade from suse 10.0 to 10.1 on my main mythtv server on >>> insertion of the stick. >>> >>> >> Mike, >> >> If you scan back though the archives, you'll see that several of us have had >> problems recently with variations of Freecom sticks. I have recently >> upgraded to GCC 4.1 and taken the latest mercurial sources and that seems to >> have stabilised it. My OS is somewhat in pieces at the moment but I can at >> least tune it repeatedly and I don't get error messages like before. I >> wouldn't mind betting that the output of dmesg from your system show lots of >> 'recv bulk' errors... I have added extra debugging to dvb-usb-urb.c expand >> error codes, which you can try if you are getting these 'recv bulk' errors >> >> Unfortunately I haven't really isolated what affected my system but the next >> step is to try and run it (again) on my NSLU2. >> >> Cheers >> >> Mark >> >> >> > Mark > Cheers, cant figure out why my laptop is working and mythserver not, I > have just got another usb tv card from kworld which uses > a different chipset altogether, and guess what, it hangs my server but > not my laptop. Probably something basic with patches to the base os on > the usb side of things.... > > will do some more comparisons with laptop vs server to try and troubleshoot. > > Mike C > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > > OK Replying my own question, it looks like the problem with my server is down to usb power draw. by plugging the freecom stick into a powered hub, all seems to be working. Not ideal, but it seems that there were major changes with 2.6.16 kernel and USB power configuration. Article here. http://lwn.net/Articles/186331/ Mike C _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
