On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:23:28 +0100 David Waring <david.waring@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm currently using 3 of these USB sticks on a PC with the videolan.org > dvblast program to multicast the UK Freeview DVB-T muxes on our local > network. I'm also using a PCTV nanostick 290e to multicast the DVB-T2 > mux too. > > I'm having a problem with the Nova-TD sticks (52009) using recent builds > from the media_build git repository (to get the 290e drivers) on Debian > squeeze using 2.6.38-bpo.2-686. The problem is that only one half of > each Nova-TD stick will tune and give data. Which half seems to be > random and changes with each reboot. Occasionally I'll get a whole stick > working or one of the sticks will not work at all. If I try to use a > non-working half of a stick it will knock out the working half until I > stop using trying to use the non-working half. So I'm seeing > interference of one logical dvb adapter from another that are both on > the same physical hardware. > > Also after a few days the sticks stop working completely and need to be > powered down before they work again, but this may be a different issue. > > I'm getting a few "dib0700: tx buffer length is larger than 4. Not > supported." in dmesg during first tune. Maybe coincidence, but I've > noticed that on the last reboot 4 tuners (out of the 6 total Nova-TD > tuners) are not working and I have 4 of the above message in dmesg, so > there could be a link. > > I've tried turning on the debugging for both the dvb_usb_dib0700 and > dvb_usb modules but there was no indication of the problem. > > Any suggestions for what I could try next to find the cause and fix this? > > David Hi, maybe the fixes Patrick posted[1] fix your issue ? http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/36393 Regards, Flo -- 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
