On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Albin Kauffmann
<albin.kauffmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 October 2010 23:25:29 Sasha Sirotkin wrote:
>> I'm having all sorts of troubles with Wintv-HVR-1120 on Ubuntu 10.10
>> (kernel 2.6.35-22). Judging from what I've seen on the net, including
>> this mailing list, I'm not the only one not being able to use this
>> card and no solution seem to exist.
>>
>> Problems:
>> 1. The driver yells various cryptic error messages
>> ("tda18271_write_regs: [1-0060|M] ERROR: idx = 0x5, len = 1,
>> i2c_transfer returned: -5", "tda18271_set_analog_params: [1-0060|M]
>> error -5 on line 1045", etc)
>
> yes, indeed :(
> (cf "Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1120 on Unbuntu 10.04" thread)
>
>> 2. DVB-T scan (using w_scan) produces no results
>
> Is this happening after each reboot? As far as I'm concerned, I've never had
> problems with DVB-T scans.
>
Almost always. I think I had a lucky reboot or two, but most of the
time DVB-T scan produces nothing.
>> 3. Analog seems to work, but with very poor quality
>
> I just tried to use Analog TV in order to confirm the problem but I cannot get
> any picture. Maybe I just don't know how to use it. I'm using commands like
> (I'm located in France):
>
> mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:norm=SECAM:chanlist=france -tvscan autostart
>
> ... and just get some "snow" on scanned channels.
> As I might have a problem with my antenna (an interior one), I am going to
> test it under Windows and report back my experience.
I'm using tvtime-scanner
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Albin Kauffmann
>
I'm trying to downgrade the kernel now to see if it helps
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