On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 05:47:10PM +0200, Guido Fiala wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2005 17:09, Markku Tavasti wrote: > > Guido Fiala <gfiala@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> > Very bad idea [tm] if you have a rev. 1.3 DVB-S card. > > >> > The ARM will crash very often without a sat signal. > > > > > > Nope - need to call FE_SLEEP after init of frontend (requires driver > > > patch), works since years stable for me. > > > > Pointer to patch, or patch itself would be welcome. I could not find > > it with google (wrong keywords in search). > > Ok, once again i try to collect what i did, i changed 3 files, although 2 > would probably do: > > required (dvb-kernel): > frontend.h (make FE_SLEEP public to be able to call it via ioctl) > > requried (vdr): > dvbdevice.c (calls FE_SLEEP, it did not work when the FE_INIT was never > called, we need to FE_INIT and after that call FE_SLEEP to make it work) Why not just patch vdr to close the frontend fd? The driver will then call FE_SLEEP automatically. Johannes
