[linux-dvb] Re: problems with a mostly lockable signal

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Jeremy Hall wrote:
> I THINK I am using the stv0299, it talks about finding it in the kernel
> initialization. (note: I am using DVB head, for 2.4 kernels)
Then adjust you satellite dish so that you get your signal more stable.


> Often times I must unload and reload the driver modules to resolve
> this.  Usually by the time I start losing the driver, I am getting many
> crunchies in the audio and the words are no longer intelligable.
sure.

> I can try to revert that change you committed, but I don't know that it
> would help me.  
no, it would not since you don't use this tuner.


> I also see crashes that are not reported when there is
> heavy EPG activity and vdr is used.  for example:
>
> Dish Network transmits two days of EPG on 12486, and I have modified the
> SetFilt code in vdr to special-case a TID of 0xff to mean no table filter
> at all and to allow all tables on pid 0x12 through.  I experimented with
> some of the ``optional'' patches that are supposed to improve interrupt
> stability, indeed things are  better, but the driver is still capable of
> crashing when vdr is running on a channel that contains all the EPG.  Dish
> Network is unique in the States because it has over 1,000 channels worth
> of data being transmitted in this way, all with unique individual programs
> (from the standpoint of the EPG. they're actually zillions of copies of
> the same stuff but they haven't figured out how time shifting descr works
> yet)
Please try to find out which parts of those patchsets improve your 
situation and report.

Holger



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