Hello Hermann, Your suggestion helped a lot indeed. I can now get about 2000 services on Hotbird using scan from dvb-apps. Moreover the "reception" is better, SNR is about 90%, SS is around 50% or more and I dont often get high error rates. I also tested viewing channels and I can now see channels that didn't exist before. One minor negative side effect is that channelscan on vdr crashes. However, I still can not tume to 12 transponders on hotbird (out of 94 in total). These are the failing transponders: >>> tune to: 11334:h:S0.0W:27500: (tuning failed) >>> tune to: 11373:h:S0.0W:27500: (tuning failed) >>> tune to: 11432:v:S0.0W:27500: (tuning failed) >>> tune to: 12264:v:S13.0E:27500: (tuning failed) >>> tune to: 11954:h:S19.2E:27500: (tuning failed) >>> tune to: 11597:v:S19.2E:22000: (tuning failed) >>> tune to: 12480:v:S19.2E:27500: (tuning failed) >>> tune to: 12500:v:S13.0E:27500: (tuning failed) >>> tune to: 11533:v:S13.0E:27500: (tuning failed) >>> tune to: 11996:v:S13.0E:27500: (tuning failed) >>> tune to: 12722:h:S68.5E:26657: (tuning failed) >>> tune to: 11344:h:S8.0W:27500: (tuning failed) Although the DVB-S part of the card is now much more usable. I feel there is still room for improvement of the Linux driver. Any suggestions on how to improve the "reception" further? I have to mention here that I have a single LNB on my installation, no disecq, however the patch helped a lot. Thank you Vagelis hermann pitton wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2007, 21:36 +0000 schrieb Vangelis Nonas: > >> Hello, >> >> I have been trying to use the DVB-S frontend of lifeview pci trio to >> scan and watch channels from Hotbird. I have the following two problems: >> > > please try again with that patch applied and report again. > http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-June/018741.html > > I don't get a Medion Quad, not in the original triple bus master PCI > slot, to behave well on supplying voltage and tone on a ISL6405ER, but > with the RF loop through from an external receiver providing the missing > I have more than thousand broadcasts available from Hotbird-13.OE. > > Cheers, > Hermann > > > >> A) When I scan (using the scan utility from the hg tree, or the scan >> utility of my distribution) almost half of the transponders can not be >> tuned. I get the error tuning failed and of course almost half of >> Hotbitd's channels are not found. My transponders file is correct >> because it comes from my set top box which also runs linux :) or from hg >> dvb-apps or from other dvb software (e.g. prog dvb). I have also tried >> scanning with channelscan plugin of vdr with the same results. When I >> use kaffeine to scan for channels I get an Oops. I am attaching the >> output of my scan command using the scan util from dvb-apps fresh hg >> pull. (scan.log.gz) >> >> B) When I use ready made channel lists downloaded from the internet I >> get low SNR and SS on almost half of the transponders and in some cases >> high error rate. When I use szap on those transponders I can not get a lock. >> >> My kernel is: >> Linux vagoshome 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 16:02:08 UTC 2007 >> i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux >> with a fresh hg mercurial pull and installation. >> >> I attach also my dmesg as dmesg.log.gz >> >> I also attach my lsmod as lsmod.log.gz >> >> In case you need more info about the Oops I get when I scan from >> Kaffeine, I can reproduce it and send you the output. >> >> The card works correctly under windows on the same machine, sat cable, dish. >> >> Thank you >> Vagelis >> >> > > > > . > > _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
