[linux-dvb] Re: UPDATE: Pinnacle PCTV Sat driver (experimental) updated

[Lars =?ISO-8859-15?Q?T=E4uber?= <taeuber@bbaw.de>]

i forgott to say i use kernel 2.4.17 on a slackware 8.0

Lars Täuber wrote:

> Hallo Peter,
> 
> thanks for your driver work. I hope i get it working some day.
> I bought such a card and have problems with it.
> 
> first i want to tell you what i did:
> 
> - the card was never initialized in an windows driver envyroment!
>    (i know some analog tv-cards [bttv] that has to play with windows
>     one time and then they worked with linux too)
> - i have a smp kernel on a dual celeron 400
>    (i booted with maxcpus=1 and had the same result)
> - there is a first analog bt878 card on a different interrupt
>    (i replaced this card and had the same problem)
> - the pctv shares an interrupt with a promise ide card
> - i don't have a diseq capable lnb switch but a normal one for 22kHz
> - the kernel locks totally (no ping, no telnet, only reset works)
> 
> here is the last output on the terminal i typed in from a screen photo
> 
> root@douddle:/usr/local/src/DVB/driver# sync
> root@douddle:/usr/local/src/DVB/driver# ./view.sh
> dvbstream v0.4pre1 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001
> Released under GPL.
> Latest version avialable from http://www.linuxstb.org/
> tuning DVB-S to 12110000H 27500000
> Channel tuned
> FE_COMPLETION_EV
> Event:  iFrequency: 12669500
>          SymbolRate: 22000000
>          FEC_inner:  0
> 
> Status: iFrequency: 10600127
>          SymbolRate: 27500000
>          FEC_inner:  0
> Bit error rate: 4975
> Signal strength: 26
> SNR:21250000
> FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_POWER FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_SPECTRUM_INV FE_HAS LOCK 
> FE_HAS_CARRIER
>   FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC
> 
> i append the relevant logs too
> 
> i don't know where the problem is
> the next time i can make a try is on the weekend (because i'm only on 
> weekends at place)
> 
> thanks anyway and good luck


-- 
Gruß
Lars Täuber



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