on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:56 am in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure hermann pitton wrote: Hi Hermann, I've been "fixing" my PC to the state that it stopped working. Hence the delay. > Hi Peter, > > Am Samstag, den 20.03.2010, 16:20 +1100 schrieb 0123peter@xxxxxxxxx: >> on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:12 am >> in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure >> hermann pitton wrote: >> >> [snip] >> > >> > unfortunately the problem with these cards is known, but no good >> > solution for now. >> > >> > Best description is from Hartmut and starts here. >> > >> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-dvb/msg26683.html >> > >> [snip] >> >> Interesting link. I have one of the cards mentioned >> (an MSI TV(at)nywhere A/D hybrid). I've decided not to throw it away. > > to not leave you without any response at least. > > In hind sight, seeing how unfortunate using such devices can be, mainly > because of being forced to try at random again with a cold boot after > some i2c war brought down the tuner, we better should have such only in > a still experimental league and not as supported. > > This was not foreseeable in such rudeness and neither Hartmut nor me > have such devices. > > The Asus triple OEM 3in1 I have does not have any problems with loading > firmware from file, the others do all get it from eeprom. > > So, actually nobody is investigating on it with real hardware. > > Maybe you can catch something with gpio_tracking and i2c_debug=1. > I would expect that the complex analog tuner initialization gets broken > somehow. This is at least known to be good to bring all down. > > Cheers, > Hermann There was a patch about alignment that went through recently. Revert "V4L/DVB (11906): saa7134: Use v4l bounding/alignment function" Maybe that was it. Should I have a file called /etc/modprobe.d/TVanywhereAD that contains the line, options saa7134 card=94 gpio_tracking i2c_debug=1 and then watch the command line output of "kaffeine"? -- Sig goes here... Peter D. -- 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
