On 5/28/07, ben handley <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry if I wasn't clear enough -- I'll try to be more precise here. > > When I use an smp-enabled kernel, I can use kaffeine, mplayer, or > mythtv and they all receive and record just fine for 15-30 minutes. > After that the picture looks like the reception is terrible -- mostly > green, sometimes with pieces of image around the edges and a few small > squares of non-green (maybe signal, maybe noise, hard to tell) through > the middle. The audio is similarly messed up, and the EPG doesn't seem > to download correctly either. The changeover is sudden, but doesn't > seem to happen after a fixed amount of time -- it's usually about > 15-30 minutes. If I record programs in this state the recording looks > exactly the same as the above description. If I play old files > everything is fine, it is only receiving that has problems. Restarting > the X server has no effect. Switching to another player has no effect. > The light on the usb stick stays solid green, ie receiving the signal > fine. It's not flashing as it does when reception is bad. > > Scanning for channels works partially: it picks up one frequency with > 4 channels, but none of the other frequencies that it found when in a > working state. It can still tune to the previously set channels, even > though it can't detect them, although of course the reception is > terrible. > > Unplugging the device, unloading the module, replugging, and reloading > has no effect. Killing the X server and restarting has no effect -- > after both those I still have exactly the same reception issue I > described above. > > I took a shot of the contents of the movie via xine -- you can get it > from http://steelgarden.com/badreception.png > The shot was taken from a saved file that I replayed after rebooting > with an non-smp kernel. > > I have also put my kernel .config file up at > http://steelgarden.com/.config in case there's something relevant in > there. Could it be a problem that I compiled the kernel with the dvb > drivers as module, and then replaced the .ko files? Should I recompile > with no hint of dvb in the kernel itself? > > I hope this is specific enough. If there's any other information I can > provide please tell me. > also does this device work properly in windows? Markus > Thanks for you patience, > Ben > > On 28/05/07, Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/28/07, ben handley <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > No, nothing at all was printed to dmesg at the moment the reception > > > dropped (or in fact at all since I started receiving). > > > > > > > first of all it should not generate a kernel oops anymore with the > > latest drivers. > > Since it's a usb device, simply replugging it should bring the device > > back to its initial state, if you still get a garbled videooutput your > > XServer/graphic card driver might have a problem, in that case you > > might try to record a video - reboot and try to watch that video > > (before rebooting if you see some garbled image also try to make a > > screenshot/photo). > > Does scanning for DVB-T channels still work when the video is gone? > > > > You should try to post as much information as possible, currently the > > only information I got out of all mails is "crashing with smp" and > > nothing else that might give a hint what happened. > > > > cheers, > > Markus > > > -- Markus Rechberger _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
