Re: diffrence between manufactures

[Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens@root.at>]

on Tue, 26 Sep 2000 you wrote:
> Clemens Kirchgatterer writes:
>  > hello!
>  > 
>  > a few days ago, i asked why my galaxis dvb-s won't work, but sadly
>  > did'nt get any answers. :-( so i wondered, if the manufacturer is the
>  > reason, why i got no reply. (the README of the dvb driver says, that
>  > there will be no support for others then siemens cards).
>  > 
>  > is there any difference at all between siemens, haupauge, galaxis,
>  > aso ... in hard - or firmware? my card is socond hand and when i got
>  > it from ebay, i thoght it would work with linux. should i swap it
>  > with a siemens?
> 
> They are identical and they should all work with the driver
> except for the data-only card versions some companies sell, but they should
> e.g. have no composite output and are missing some other chips. 

ah, i see.
 
> >From the descriptions you gave in your previous mail I cannot really
> tell anything, except that it does not work. A copy of the kernel
> messages during and after driver installation would be helpful.

here it comes! shame on me, that i have not includet it in my first
mail!

this is the output of syslogd after executing "make insmod" in
DVB/driver/

Sep 26 18:35:26 love kernel: i2c-core.o: i2c core module
Sep 26 18:35:26 love kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Sep 26 18:35:26 love kernel: saa7146_init_one()
Sep 26 18:35:26 love kernel: i2c-core.o: adapter saa7146(1) registered as adapter 0.
Sep 26 18:35:26 love kernel: saa7146_core.o: saa7146(1): bus:0, rev:1, mem:0xc586e000.
Sep 26 18:35:26 love kernel: i2c-core.o: driver VES1893 DVB DECODER registered.
Sep 26 18:35:26 love kernel: VES1893: init_module
Sep 26 18:35:26 love kernel: i2c-core.o: driver VES1820 DVB DECODER registered.
Sep 26 18:35:26 love kernel: VES1820: init_module
Sep 26 18:35:28 love kernel: i2c-core.o: driver dvbi2c registered.
Sep 26 18:35:28 love kernel: wait-for-debi-done maxwait: 500000
Sep 26 18:35:28 love kernel: bootarm: debi test failed!!
Sep 26 18:35:28 love kernel: dvb: firmware = 00000000
Sep 26 18:35:28 love kernel: dvb: MAC = 00 d0 5c 88 63 81 
Sep 26 18:35:28 love kernel: dvb: attach_adapter
Sep 26 18:35:28 love kernel: dvb: 1 dvb(s) found!
Sep 26 18:35:28 love kernel: i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered.
Sep 26 18:35:29 love kernel: i2c-core.o: driver i2c msp3400 driver registered.

btw: i've added msp3400 to the OBJS macro in the Makefile as it
seemed to be missing.

looks like there is no firmware, right?

> Ralph

thanx so far!

clemens