I too have a PCI Nova-T 500 2040:9950 that works well with the 1.20 firmware and a 2.6.24 kernel and the latest drivers from http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb.First off I'd like to point out that I had considerable success with fw 1.20 and the drivers that I tested on mid-November. At the time, the driver had the issues with the repeating remote control messages. Since the update (I think November 16th) I have not been able to get a stable build, suffering from the i2c problem. My test environment consists of 2 different VIA Epia boards (SP8000 and CN10000). I have both a PCI Nova-T 500 2040:9950 and a USB stick Nova-TD 2040:5200 which are dibcom devices. I also have a Hauppauge Nova-T PCI (cx88xx) and a Kworld 399U dual tuner USB stick 1b80:e399 (af9015).
For me kernels 2.6.25 & 2.6.27 have problems. See here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/303667.
Can you confirm that 2.6.24 was the last good kernel for a PCI Nova-T 500 2040:9950?The build is a scripted build of gentoo, built as a livecd (which means it is very repeatable). The snapshot of gentoo portage dates from 20081028 which gives me a 2.6.25 kernel. I'm using gentoo-sources so I get 2.6.25-gentoo-r7.
If you start from cold do you see the same firmware load failure that I'm seeing?In one of my previous posts I mentioned that I am testing remote control functionality using lirc. This is using devinput and allows me to abstract the key bindings for different applications. What else can I tell you?
Regards and Best Wishes,
Robert
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