[linux-dvb] Re: digitv tuner patch

[Michael Krufky]

Phil Taylor wrote:
> A few weeks ago you made the following response re a problem with the usb DigiTV tuner, as noted below.
> I have just installed a recent distro using the 2.6.20 kernel, and the problem still persists. Can you give me any idea when these patched will be included in a release kernel?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Phil Taylor.
> 
>   1.. > Hello,
>   2.. > 
>   3.. > I had my digitv up and running fine in Fedora core 5 (using a 2.6.17 kernel). I
>   4.. > recently upgraded to fedora core 6 (2.6.18) and since doing this my device has
>   5.. > stopped working properly. Initialisation etc appears fine but the device will not
>   6.. > tune. Tuning process itself seems ok. No access errors or anything like that
>   7.. > however the signal strength is zero all the way. The device is fine (still works
>   8.. > in windows). I checked out the latest mercurial and it didn't help. Any help
>   9.. > would be appreciated.
>   10.. > Mine is the older Nxt6000 demodulator not the zarlink one.
>   11.. Edit nxt6000.c
>   12.. Go to ~line 467 and add this line:
>   13.. if (fe->ops.tuner_ops.set_params) {
>   14.. + if (fe->ops.i2c_gate_ctrl) fe->ops.i2c_gate_ctrl(fe, 1);
>   15.. fe->ops.tuner_ops.set_params(fe, param);
>   16.. if (fe->ops.i2c_gate_ctrl) fe->ops.i2c_gate_ctrl(fe, 0);
>   17.. }
>   18.. 
>   19.. Thanks to Alex Woods for fixing this... This will be merged into the master repository soon.
>   20.. ( i will also see to it that the -stable kernels get updated with this patch )
>   21.. Good Luck,
>   22.. Mike Krufky
> 

I wasn't happy with Alex's patch, and i suggested a different approach.  Eventually,
my alternate patch was tested, but I havent yet had a chance to commit it to the
repositories. Thank you for this reminder -- I will take care of this within the next
few days, hopefully we'll see it in 2.6.21.

As for 2.6.20, I will try to have the patch added to 2.6.20.1 or 2.6.20.2

Cheers,

Mike Krufky