[vdr] Re: 1.1.33 and black screen

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

>Jan Ekholm wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 27 May 2003, [iso-8859-1] "Bläser, Lars" wrote:
>> 
>> >i had such problems for a week after i was installing a new nic and
>> >changing from 1.0.4 to the actual developer version (1.0.4 was runnig
>> >fine)
>> >
>> >after removing the new nic and changing the irqŽs (2 dvb-s, one was
>> >shared with the irq of the bios-disabled usb) to definatly single use
>> >(btw i now use a old ISA graka, less heat and irq) i have no problems
>> 
>> Well, the older versions worked ok, and the NIC has always been there
>> (integrated into the MB). I could try to see if the BIOS allows me to
>> change the IRQ though. Yes, it is a RealTek...
>> 
>> >iŽm not shure what the problem was, a possible irq storm of the new
>> >realtek nic or the shared irq of one dvb-s, but now i donŽt have this
>> >problem anymore (~3 times a day before, recording still worked fine but
>> >live was black and for replay the picture froze and audio looped
>> >imidiatly, after a while the watchdog restarted vdr) maybe i will try to
>> >insert the "new" nic at the weekend for testing
>> 
>> Hmm, playback always has worked fine, as far as I can remember, no
>> problems at all. It's watching/recording that has caused problems, and
>> mostly for later versions of VDR and the DVB drivers. It's a Hauppauge
>> full DVB-c card.
>
>Could you try to determine whether it is a VDR or a driver problem?
>Usually VDR and driver are both used in up-to-date versions, so it
>may be hard to tell which one causes such a problem.

I couldtry running a while with the DVB_2003-03-11 drivers (I've saved all
old versions), as this version is one of the few that has the patch that
make DVB-c work in Finland. I'll get back to you in a day or two, as I've
usually seen the black screen error almost daily.

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