On 22 November 2010 06:08, hermann pitton <hermann-pitton@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Am Sonntag, den 21.11.2010, 17:58 +0000 schrieb Mike Martin: >> I am trying to tune channels with this card (which seems to be >> installed OK). However the output is >> >> Using DVB card "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T" >> tuning DVB-T (in United Kingdom) to 497833000 Hz >> polling.... >> Getting frontend event >> FE_STATUS: >> polling.... >> polling.... >> polling.... >> > > usually, in the UK, this can be caused by the missing ability to detect > some frequencies offsets by the tda10046. > > Since you have already a minus of 167000Hz, typically for the UK, in > your initial scan/tuning file, this most common problem likely can be > excluded. > > So there are eventually three variants causing the problem on a first > idea. > > 1. They changed to 498 MHz. (or did change something else too, "auto" > is your friend in the initial scan file then, except for the freq.) > tried that no difference > 2. Your overall signal is not good enough. > well up until friday I was using a HVR900, until it decided to refuse to believe it was plugged into a USB2 bus, and it was working fine > 3. You sit on some kernel with some bug. > > Case one and two are not hard to come through, for case three, the > remedies are slipping away. > > You might have to install some latest .rc-git stuff, likely without > support for your graphics card, coming up in vesa mode only, try to > record something, and boot back into some kernel with support for > displaying the record, we all have HDTV these days ... > > It might look like that, since the mobile devices and webcams took it > all over here ;) > > Cheers, > Hermann > > > > > > -- 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
