on Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:32 pm in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure hermann pitton wrote: > Hi, > > to be honest, there is a little too much delay on those reports. I have been very slow, sorry. >> > did not even notice a problem with Trent's prior patch. >> > The same is also at vivi. >> > >> >> 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"? >> >> I've found a GUI that allows tweaking lots of module parameters >> that I have never heard of. Card=94 in the config file, >> gpio_tracking and i2c_debug are set to "1" in the GUI. >> >> Strange things are appearing in dmesg and syslog. I assume that >> [snip] >> saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff >> i2c-adapter i2c-0: Invalid 7-bit address 0x7a >> saa7133[0]: i2c xfer: < 8e ERROR: NO_DEVICE >> [snip] >> is significant. > > No, not at all for my knowledge. Unsurprisingly, that just highlights my ignorance. >> > If you want to produce debug output for failing firmware loading from >> > file after a cold boot, yes, you might eventually be able to see that >> > failing tuner initialization brings down i2c. >> > >> > If it is a additional new regression, then mercurial bisect can find the >> > patch in question fairly quick. >> >> That sounds like something that I should be able to do, if only >> I'd read the instructions. > > It is totally up to you and all others with that hardware. Can you provide a like for where to start reading? > Since already in some multiple broken conditions, never working without > flaws previously, I would suggest not to wait any longer, until some > sort of hadron collider is available ... Now I'm discouraged. It might be a better use of my time to do something else - anything else. Maybe I'll just put it in a box for a year and see what happens. > First try in all known ways. > > We likely don't have the budget for anything else that soon ;) > > Cheers, > Hermann -- 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
