[linux-dvb] Re: More thoughts on coldboot driver crash

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

JosceJ@netscape.net wrote:
>>We now put our own development tree on our page at 
>>http://www.metzlerbros.org/dvb/index.html It contains
> 
> 
> I am just curious, are there now two different driver
> development projects going on? If so, why?
> 
> A feature request:
> Would it be possible to have a compile switch -NO_ZIGZAG ?
> The reason is that with my DVB-C card here in Helsinki the zigzag
> is totally useless. It tries to tune into a channel, and if it doesn't
> get a lock the zigzag starts. Then it jumps around for a while
> untill it eventually jumps back to the frequency that it didn't
> get a lock on.
> 
> The problem we have here in Helsinki is that when the freq is supposed
> to be say 162000000, in reality it is 161750000. So if you give as the

That's exactly why you need the zigzag scan for DVB-C too. If you 
disable it you break all applications that rely on the frequency 
announced in the NIT, without zigzag scan the frontend won't lock on the 
  frequency transmitted in the NIT.

Holger



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