Terry Barnaby wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a problem with the latest DVB drivers. > I have a Twinhan VisionPlus DVB-T card (and other DVB cards) in my > MythTv server running Fedora 8. This is running fine > with the Fedora stock kernel: 2.6.26.6-49.fc8. > > However, I have now added a Hauppauge DVB-S2 and so have been > trying the latest DVB Mercurial DVB tree. > This compiles and installs fine and the two DVB-T cards and the > new DVB-S card are recognised and has /dev/dvb entries. > The first DVB-T card, a Twinhan based on the SAA7133/SAA7135 > works fine but the Twinhan VisionPlus, which is Bt878 will not > tune in. > > Any ideas ? > Has there been any recent changes to the Bt878 driver that could > have caused this ? > I have tracked this down to a bug in the bt8xx/dst frontend. It appears that the front end tuning algorithm number as used in dvb_frontend.c has changed format but the default setting in bt8xx/dst has not been updated to match. This patch sets the default algorithm to be software tuning as, I believe, was the original setting. However, I wonder if it should be set to use hardware tuning by default ... Cheers Terry
diff -r 5dc4a6b381f6 linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c --- a/linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c Wed Nov 19 13:01:33 2008 -0200 +++ b/linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c Fri Nov 21 10:44:43 2008 +0000 @@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ module_param(dst_addons, int, 0644); module_param(dst_addons, int, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(dst_addons, "CA daughterboard, default is 0 (No addons)"); -static unsigned int dst_algo; +static unsigned int dst_algo = DVBFE_ALGO_SW; module_param(dst_algo, int, 0644); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(dst_algo, "tuning algo: default is 0=(SW), 1=(HW)"); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(dst_algo, "tuning algo: default is DVBFE_ALGO_SW (options: DVBFE_ALGO_HW)"); #define HAS_LOCK 1 #define ATTEMPT_TUNE 2
_______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
