Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Adrian P Challinor wrote:
>> Can anyone explain why I get these messages in the log and the box
>> crashes?
> ...
>> May 14 18:00:06 vdr kernel: sp8870_set_frontend: firmware crash!!!!!!
>
> The FF firmware is known to crash on poor signal quality.
>
> Reasons (except for poor software quality in the firmware)
> might include a poorly aligned dish, a broken LNB, a bad
> coax cable, etc.
>
> Use the femon plugin to check your signal quality.
Very well, though this is a DVB-T card. I experience far more crashes of
the sp8870 firmware than I did with the very old DVB "HEAD" drivers...
Also tuning is slow and unreliable with any other version than the old DVB
HEAD one.
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Juri
