Am Montag, 8. Dezember 2008 schrieb Marco Schinkel: > Hello, > > I experience some strange behavior with vdr and a plain full featured > Technotrend Rev. 1.6 (no mods, no daughterboards, no usage of internal > connectors): > > When running VDR (version 1.6.0-2/1.6.0) after a few days the live tv on > the composite out goes away (only black picture visible). The menu > however is perfectly workable (and I can see it on the composite out on > top of a black picture). > > I use the newest available firmware and recent drivers from the v4l-dvb > repository (using the v4l-dv-hg gentoo ebuild) on an 2.6.27.7 kernel. > > dmesg output occasionally has the following message: > > saa7146 (2) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for end of xfer > > There are no other problems on the system, so I assume that it is either > a dvb driver/firmware thing, or a vdr bug. > > Starting a recording in vdr leads to an empty 001.vdr file. Restarting > vdr does not help. Reloading the drivers usually helps but sometimes > not. In this cases i have to powercycle the system. The problem exists > no matter what card I use and on which position on the pci bus the card > sits (I tried different cards, all ttpci 1.6 on 4 different slots on 3 > different pci busses). The problem even occured on my old mainboard > occasionally. So it is definitely not a hardware defect. I assume the > problem is not even related with the i2c timeout. > > Is this problem known? Is there a known workaround or even better a way > to fix this? > > > Best Regards, > > > Marco Schinkel > > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr Hello, the same problem is here. I think that the issue is the PCI bus (Riser card flexiple). Is since version 1.6.0 more traffic to the FF card? Another reason is the LNB. I think that the contact ressistance from card to LNB is to high. I have test it with femon. STR: 60% SNR: 81% Is this ok? Any other ideas? Regards Jens. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
