On 12 November 2011 15:44, Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2011/11/12 Tim Draper <veehexx@xxxxxxxxx>: >> On 11 November 2011 23:16, Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 09:51 +1100, Jason Hecker wrote: >>>> I concur. I have been using Malcolm Priestly's patches with both my >>>> AF9015 dual tuner cards (which are PCI but still look like USB to the >>>> kernel) for a few weeks now and have (finally!) got consistently >>>> perfect recordings in MythTV simultaneously with both tuners on a >>>> card. Malcolm, when do you think you'll submit these patches to the >>>> tree for inclusion? Is there anything else to test? >>>> >>>> I agree about the power cycling. Every time I reboot I disconnect the >>>> AC supply for 20secs to be sure the cards are power cycled properly - >>>> you do the same thing by pulling out the stick. >>> >>> Yes, this is what is holding up the patches to media_build. >>> >>> The bug appears to be a race condition that appears in get config with >>> some usb controllers. >>> >>> Josu, your patch is for the older hg version on s2, so this will not >>> work on media_build. >>> >>> I have being trying to a way to do it without the bus lock, but can't >>> >>> I will try and finish the patches tomorrow. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> Malcolm >>> >>> >> >> thanks for the quick responses guys! i look forward to the update. >> since i'm new to this mailing list, and have only used v4l in >> pre-configured linux distro's, how will this fix be distributed to >> people - as a patch i presume? >> are there any how-to's with prerequisites of whats required to apply a patch? >> -- >> 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 >> > > Hello Tim, I am not expert on this. I use to install this way: > > apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential > mkdir /usr/local/src/dvb > cd /usr/local/src/dvb > > wget http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin/archive/tip.zip > unzip s2-liplianin-0b7d3cc65161.zip > cd s2-liplianin-0b7d3cc65161 > > cp /home/lazkano/Dropbox/repository/dvb/af9015_v3.patch.tar.gz . > tar xvzf af9015_v3.patch.tar.gz > patch -p1 < af9015_v3.patch > > make CONFIG_DVB_FIREDTV:=n > make install > > With this method, I get working the Kworld dual DVB-T and Tevii S660 DVB-S2. > > Malcolm, thanks for your work, with this patches you will make useful > 3 DVB-T devices I have. > > Regards. > > > -- > Josu Lazkano > thanks for the help all - the recent patch ('[PATCH 0/7] af9015 dual tuner and othe fixes from my builds') was applied yesterday (or so i believe!), and so far it's been perfect! before, the patch, the tuner would become un-usable after a short timeframe (30-60mins). i both fixed my issue, and learnt a bit about patching, so that was a good day :) fwiw, i used Malcolms' suggestion that he sent me off this ML, which is as follows: here is how to patch Ubuntu 11.04 ---------------------------------------------------------------- To patch and update check you have the following installed using terminal. sudo apt-get install git sudo apt-get install patchutils sudo apt-get install libdigest-sha1-perl sudo apt-get install libproc-processtable-perl find a suitable location in your home directory and run the following commands. git clone git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git cd media_build ./build Now put the 0000.patch in the media_build directory and run the following command. patch -d linux -p1 < 0000.patch make sudo make install then reboot -- 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
