In message <c74595dc0901261130k6bdb6882lfb18c650cbca4abf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alex Betis wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Darron Broad <darron@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> In message <c74595dc0901260753x8b9185fu33f2a96ffbe13016@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, >> Alex Betis wrote: >> >> lo >> >> <snip> >> > >> >The bug is in S2API that doesn't return ANY error message at all :) >> >So the tuner is left locked on previous channel. >> > >> >There are many things that can be done in driver to improve the situation, >> >but I'll leave it to someone who has card with cx24116 chips. >> >> When tuning the event status should change to 0 and if >> it stays that way the tuning operation failed. >> >> If you read the frontend status directly then you will >> retrieve the state of the previous tuning operation >> that suceeded. > >What do you call an event status and what direct status? > >scan-s2 uses FE_READ_STATUS that always success and indicates channel lock, >even if cx24116 driver returned an error due to AUTO parameters. refer to FE_SET_FRONTEND: http://www.linuxtv.org/docs/dvbapi/DVB_Frontend_API.html#SECTION00328000000000000000 and, FE_GET_EVENT http://www.linuxtv.org/docs/dvbapi/DVB_Frontend_API.html#SECTION003210000000000000000 l8r -- // / {:)==={ Darron Broad <darron@xxxxxxxx> \\ \ _______________________________________________ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
