On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:44:44 -0500 CityK <cityk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > CityK wrote: > > Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > >> I've made a new tree http://linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb-kworld/ > >> that calls 'enables the tuner' before loading the module. See if that > >> works. > >> > >> ... > >> > >> I suspect that this might fix the bug. > >> > > > > Hans, > > > > ... it works !! > > I may have found a problem (tvtime works perfectly; other analogue apps > like xawtv/motv, kdetv ... are not working properly now -- you can do a > channel scan with them and everything_appears_to work as expected (i.e. > channels are found and are displayed/played correctly during the scan), > BUT as soon as you actually go to use the app, it does not work > (static). It appears that the issue is related to dga and Xv (as > passing the -nodga -noxv options with xawtv/motv actually works ... > kdetv is hit and miss -- sometimes the v4l1 mode works, other times it > doesn't (likely a pattern there but haven't found it yet), but v4l2 > plugin does NOT work at all (static)). In addition, the nvidia driver > is NOT the source of the error, as the same occurs under the nv driver > as well. I've seen this issue happening with nvidia proprietary driver, on an old machine I had. the open source nv driver were better (e.g. the bug were much less frequent than with the proprietary one). This kind of trouble is not related to the kernel driver. > Will have to do another test to confirm whether this error was > introduced in the KWorld repo. Consequently: > > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > >> Hans Verkuil wrote: > >> > >>> Note that Mauro merged my saa7134 changes, so these are now in the master > >>> repository. > >>> > >>> > >> Yes. We need to fix it asap, to avoid regressions. It is time to review also > >> the other codes that are touching on i2c gates at _init2(). > >> > >> > > > > Thoughts on merging the changes from Hans' KWorld repo? > > If there were any thoughts on this, please put them on hold until I can > test further. Ok. FYI, I've committed that changeset I've proposed. Could you please confirm that the driver is working with the v4l-dvb tree. Cheers, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
