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From: "Paul Elliott" < omahns.home@xxxxxxxxx>
To: linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:35:13 +0000
Subject: WinTV-NOVA-T-500 Status
Hi all,
Can anyone give me a state of play on the Nova 500 card? I have one
here, I'm using the latest rc kernel and the patched firmware from the
wiki yet it still disconnects, a *lot* - typically after a couple of
hours and sometimes immediately on boot. I've removed it from my
system for now and switched to a Nova-T. (Although only a single tuner
now.)
Someone on the IRC channel (forgot the alias, sorry!) suggested that
the developers are currently stumped. If this is the case would it
helpful to any developers if they could have my card on a free loan
for a while to debug the issue?...
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Paul Elliott (omahn)
Systems Engineer, Option-C Services
omahns.home@xxxxxxxxx
I'm currently using a Nova-T 500 with no major issues. I'm running Gentoo 64 bits, kernel 2.6.23-r3 (lastest) and HG drivers (obtained last week, when I fully reinstalled the system). Previously I was using Sabayon 32 bits, same kernel, etc... and everything was also ok.
I still suffer very ocasional disconnects, but they are really rare. I also sometimes get I2C errors in dmesg, but they don't seem to cause any issues.
I don't know what can be the reason of your problems. As far as I know, the disconnects are somehow related to bad receiving quality, which cause the firmware on the card to block. I'm not sure, though.
The driver development for this card seems to be stopped, right now. Since last firmware update (1.10) ther has been no news.
Best regards,
Eduard
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