Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > Antti Palosaari wrote: >> I disabled 2nd tuner by default due to bad performance I faced up with >> my hardware. Anyhow, you can enable it by module param, use modprobe >> dvb-usb-af9015 dual_mode=1 . Test it and please report. >> > > > All this has inspired me to retry my DigitalNow TinyTwin. The results > are good (excellent) and badish. I am available to do any testing and > builds required. Thanks for all the hard work! > I made other test version of af9015 driver which uses different MXL500x tuner driver. I think it will perform a lot more better. Please test: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015-mxl500x/ > > I installed http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015 drivers and firmware, > rebooted. As expected one tuner recognised (/dev/advb/adaptor0). > > The Good: > A "scan au-Brisbane" picked up every local channel, quite surprising as > I was just using the crappy little antenna that came with it. Better > yet, MythTV displayed the video on the all the channels with excellent > reception - signal strength > 60%, no artifacts. That's better than any > of the other tuners I have trialled on this test PC with similar setups, > but it is in line with the windows drivers. The TinyTwin just seems to > get really good reception when driven correctly. Its worth it for the > single tuner alone. > > The not so good :) > > I did a "modprobe dvb-usb-af9015 dual_mode=1" and got similar results to > Rasjid - adapter1/frontend0 was not created and there were errors about > copying the firmware. However on a reboot both frontends were there. > Warm start maybe? > > The Bad: > > "scan au-Brisbane" Wored ok, but a"scan -a 1 au-Brisbane" caused > adapter0 to vanish and adapter1 never found anything. The following was > in the dmesg log: -- http://palosaari.fi/ _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
