On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Sasha Sirotkin <demiurg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
I went back as far as 2.6.30 and I still have this problem. 2.6.29
does not recognize this card at all.
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