[linux-dvb] Re: [Massimiliano Perantoni <perantoni@wnet.it>] Re: Re: Want some more problems? (Was :Re: Re: Tuning/Decoder Problem with version 0.9)

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On 01 May 2001 00:27:00 +0200, Massimiliano Perantoni
<liste@steely.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Yes I know it's buggy, but it's the only chance for AMD processors... Is
> there and other Chipset for AMD processors?

AMD and SiS. But I don't know if they work better.

>  
>  
> > Why aren't you using VDR with the old 8.2 drivers?
> 
> Well, it looks as if when I use such drivers, sometimes the driver
> dresets the ARM (what's that?), and goes well, some other times it
> resets it several times, but the dvb.o module seems not to care that the
> program closed (i kill gVideo or what I use) is just ONE, but thinks I'm
> closing from 13 to 26 programs and brings the module usage counter to
> -13 to -24: this thing obviously makes me reset the machine, as there is
> no way to unload the module :-(

I never had such a problem with VDR. I also sometimes have seen ARM
resets, but the system always recovered without rebooting it.

> Nice thing... As my brother works with satellite antennas, could you
> help me in defining which should be the best one for this use?

Aston 1.03 is certainly the best, but as I wrote it crashes sometimes,
too. To improve the situation you should avoid any heavy zapping,
especially between non-encrypted and encrypted channels (turn off EIT
scanner in VDR). Group your channel list so that all the encrypted
channels and non-encrypted channels are in a sequence each.
Please notice that this is no first hand experience as I don't have such
a CAM. But all this was mentioned by many users in a lot of satellite
boards.

> Do you think it's related to recent discovere chipset issues? Why then
> with older kernels (under the TV card only, not DVB that has ALWAYS had
> the same problem) all goes right?

I really don't know. I haven't looked into all this chipset issues yet.
Please keep in mind that this problem is not only with AGP graphic
cards, I have the same problem with an old PCI MACH64 card, too.
Currently looking into this isn't my highest priority, because I only
use composite/s-video output of the cards. May be we should post
something into a forum specialized on linux hardware.

Emil


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