Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Thomas Rausch wrote: > >> After 6 hours I must say that my VDR did not bring yet back the error. >> So far otherwise always. I want to hope that it functions now. :) >> >> In the LOG comes however repeatedly: >> >> Jan 3 18:15:43 cat vdr[16675]: ERROR: frontend 0 lost lock >> Jan 3 18:15:43 cat vdr[16675]: frontend 0 regained lock >> Jan 3 18:16:03 cat vdr[16675]: ERROR: frontend 0 lost lock >> Jan 3 18:16:03 cat vdr[16675]: frontend 0 regained lock >> Jan 3 18:16:25 cat vdr[16675]: ERROR: frontend 0 lost lock >> Jan 3 18:16:26 cat vdr[16675]: frontend 0 regained lock >> Jan 3 18:16:45 cat vdr[16675]: ERROR: frontend 0 lost lock >> Jan 3 18:16:45 cat vdr[16675]: frontend 0 regained lock >> Jan 3 18:17:06 cat vdr[16675]: ERROR: frontend 0 lost lock >> Jan 3 18:17:06 cat vdr[16675]: frontend 0 regained lock > > > Apparently the FE_GET_EVENT ioctl() sometimes delivers a different > status value than FE_READ_STATUS. I ran some tests, comparing both > values and whenever VDR reported a lost lock, the current FE_READ_STATUS > value still had the FE_HAS_LOCK set correctly. > > Following an old recommendation of Holger W?chtler I finally changed > the frontend status handling so that it polls the frontend and reads > any pending event (but simply discards it), and then reads the actual > status via FE_READ_STATUS. > > With the attached patch (which is again a complete patch against > dvbdevice.c of version 1.3.37) I don't get these spurious "lost lock" > messages any more. > > I've also increased the timeout for polling the event queue to 10ms, > because 1ms seemed a little hard to me. This had no effect on the > "lost lock" problem, however, so the change in status handling really > is what fixed it. > > Please try whether this also helps in your case. Unfortunately this broke the CAM menu handling, so here's a slightly different version. Sorry about that... Klaus -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vdr.1.3.37-tunertimeout3.diff Type: text/x-patch Size: 6249 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20060104/e8fb79d5/vdr.1.3.37-tunertimeout3.bin
