[linux-dvb] how to disable second DVB-s card?

[<mocm@convergence.de>]

Rainer Zocholl writes:
 > 
 > 
 > Background:
 > Because currently it is -entirely- impossible (does some one want 
 > to swap a socket 370 350MHz PII against a 1000er PIII? :-) ) for me 
 > to use the second card (garbage recordings, MPEG1-error and Kernel panic
 > and no clues) i want to disable the card, in the hope that some day
 > there will be more DVB/VDR users with a faster PC (CPUs below 500MHzs
 > are already hard to get) running in the same problem so the 
 > motivation increases to find the bug :-)
 > 
 > Question:
 > Is there an elegant/easy way to turn the card/interface on 
 > and off by software?

I have heard that 1GHz CPUs seem to cause interference with the
reception of the DVB cards. Faster and slower CPUs seem to cause less
problems.


Marcus


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