[linux-dvb] Newbie - which driver?

[Michael Lipka <lipka@lip.inka.de>]

I'm trying to get my brand-new KNC 1 TV Station DVB-S card working
with kernel 2.4.19 using the CVS monolithic driver.  The card looks
_very_ similar to the Typhoon DVB-S show at
http://perugia.linux.it/progetti/dvb so I followed the instructions
there and fetched both cvs drivers (monolithic DVB and dvb-kernel) and
tried them.  The card comes with a Linux Driver on CD (one reason I
bought it for) which is a Ralph Mezlers / Convergence driver from
2002-02-11 (DVB-ANDY), but looks very different from the one I
downloaded from Ralph's page.

My problem (beside of having no clue of how the whole thing works ;-)
is, that I don't know how to detect that the driver is working.  As
this is a so called "budget card" actually viewing/recording something
will be the next step.  I expected the szap application to exit with a
0-return code and maybe to see something in syslog.

Results so far:

With cvs-DVB szap hangs and a kernel process "kdvb-fe-0:0" is using
the full cpu power.  Unloading the modules hangs the machine

CVS cvs-kernel doesn't compile (my kernel tree is OK, although very
old, Nov 2002). I get "dvb-ttusb-budget.c:769: dereferencing pointer
to incomplete type"

The driver from the CD compiles and loads but szap doesn't exit and
none of the tuxzap application seem to do what they are expected to.
The error is "device busy".

I have seen the output of szap shown on the perugia page:

 status 1f | signal aefe | snr d57b | ber 0000ff00 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK

and the comment there implies that the driver is working, am I right?
I mean, szap is not expected to exit? (zap_to () is called just once
in a loop over channels.conf when a line matches and there seems to be
no loop in zap_t() itself, unless I missed recursion).

This happend with either Ralph's driver or the 0x61-patched cvs-DVB
(monolithic) driver (sorry, can't remember,- too many reboots ;-).

As you can see I'm just stumbling around.  Reading four years of
mailinglist archive would probably help, but there must be a quicker
way to get an overview.  Can somebody please point me to the stuff I
should read?  And in the meantime,- is there a HOWTO that will help me
recording "enterprise" this evening? :-D

Thanks in advance
Michael


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