I need help troubleshooting this problem. I am getting some strange behaviour from my SkyStar2 USB under linux. It has been working fine for months and months; nothing has changed at my end except for me mucking about with some old vortex sound cards. I routinely got snr greater than 0xd600 reported from szap. Great. But now I see snr toodling around 0x7180; and signal down to around 0x8600; and no FE_HAS_LOCK (status 03). Thats obvious I hear you cry; the dish is now just pointing the wrong way; the LBN has fallen off; the cable is iffy; or a tree/building has grown up in the way. But no. You see... rebooting linux and power cycling the SkyStar box _sometimes_ restores everything to normal for a little while (upto 30mins)?! I have even fine tuned the snr up to 0xdb00 by adjusting the dish while it is restored; only for szaps reports to suddently drop down to the useless state after another 20mins. What is going on here? I tried your CVS drivers and apps. I have swapped the dish; the LBN; hung the skystar USB from the LBN with the shortest piece of cable imaginable; tried different linux boxes. Without an LBN connected szap reports a signal strength of zero as expected. It has been happening for just over a week now. Other than driver stuff; the only thing I can think of left is that the (well ventilated) skystar2 hardware chose to burn-out/expire in some curious way. One of the channels I am using is: ITV2:10758:v:0:22000:2314:2315:10070 ....and the reception dies suddenly long after tuning so I don't expect it is the 22kHz tuner burn-out problem some suffer from. Any ideas? Concerned about your privacy? Instantly send FREE secure email, no account required http://www.hushmail.com/send?l=480 Get the best prices on SSL certificates from Hushmail https://www.hushssl.com?l=485 _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
