[linux-dvb] Re: Hauppauge Nova-S (budget) needs reboot

[Reiner Wenke <Reiner.Wenke@hamburg.de>]

Ivan Gerasimov schrieb:

> Stephan Weber wrote:
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > using my DVB-S card I face the following problem:
> > During boot up my dvb driver is loaded and everything seems to be just
> > fine.
> > Afterwards I can't use it because /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 doesn't deliver
> > anything at all. No wonder using xine or vdr doesn't work.
> > Doing just a reboot everything just works like a charm (I use this
> > "feature"
> > for over three month now and it is always acting like this....)
> >
> > Here's my setup:
> > I'm using kernel 2.6.2rc (now - before I used various 2.6.0pre kernels,
> > 2.6.0
> > and 2.6.1) and the included dvb drivers.
> > Loading the modules produces the following dmesg (on first startup and on
> > reboot):
>
> > saa7146: register extension 'budget_ci dvb'.
> > PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0c.0 (0004 -> 0006)
> > saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem e191f000 (revision 1, irq 11) (0x13c2,0x100f).
> > DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-CI PCI).
> > TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-CI PCI adapter 0 has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:20:d8:42
> > probe_tuner: try to attach to TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-CI PCI
> > drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stv0299.c: setup for tuner SU1278/SH
> > DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (STV0299/TSA5059/SL1935 based)...
> >
> > lspci reports my card as:
> > 00:0c.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
> >       Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH: Unknown device 100f
> >       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
> >       Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
> >
> > It is a Hauppauge Nova-S (budget) card.
> >
> > Could anyone point me to the underlying problem? I could also accept
> > some kind of reinitialization (instead of a reboot).
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Stephan
>
>  Hallo Stephan,
>
> seit ich mich einen neuen Rechner erlaubt habe treffe ich das gleiche
> Problem.
>
> Statt Neustarten mache ich "unload and load" von DVB-Treibern, manchmal
> sogar mehrmals. Ich bin an der Idee gekommen, dass die Ursache die meine
> Kombination von Hardware und Kernel ist. Sie ist:
>
>  - i845Gx(VGA-onboard)
>  - LAN onboard
>  - SOUND onboard
>  - AMI-BIOS (MSI-MB)
>  - P IV 2.4GHz, FSB533
>
>  - Kernel 2.4.22, 2.4.24
>  - DVB-drivers - die letzte von www.linuxtv.org
>  - OS - SuSE Linux 8.2
>
>  Es ist etwas bestimmt mit Linux verbindet(Kernel oder DVB-driver), weil mit
> W$N alles läuft problemlos.
>
>  Um eine laufende Kombination zu entdecken, habe ich alle mögliche
> BIOS-Einstellungskombinationen ausprobiert, bis jetzt ohne Erfolg.
>
>  Was für ein Rechner hast du?
>
>  Mit freundlichen Grüßen: Ivan
Hi,

I have the same problem with a Satelco Budget card as second card, but it uses also
the stv0299 driver. Only a reboot helps. I'm using Kernel 2.6.2-rc1 with  the latest
dvb-kernel from cvs.
Is there a way to show the registers of the card after initialization?

Best regards
Reiner Wenke



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