[linux-dvb] Re: nova budget / vdr breaks the driver..

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
> I'm using WinTV Nova-t PCI DVB-T budget card with linuxtv-dvb-1.1.0 driver
> on Linux 2.4.24.
> 
> If I run vdr (1.3.6) as the first application after the reboot, I don't get
> any signal.. mplayer doesn't work either after this. mplayer complains that
> dvb streaming read fails.
> 
> But, If I run mplayer as the first application after the reboot, it works
> well. After running mplayer, vdr works too. And mplayer works after vdr too
> in this case :)
> 
> So, If I run vdr before mplayer, it somehow breaks the driver.. I guess.
> Any ideas? There's no errors in the logs. Reloading the drivers doesn't
> help. 
> 
> If you run vdr before mplayer, only solution is to reboot to get the dvb
> card working again.. weird :)

This sounds interesting. What frontend?

The only thing I can imagine is that vdr calls some ioctl
before the frontend is fully initialized (the driver should
prevent this, of course), and then the frontend
crashes and needs to be power-cycled.

Can anyone else reproduce this?


Johannes


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