[linux-dvb] Re: nova budget / vdr breaks the driver..

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:21:26PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > 
> > I'm using WinTV Nova-t PCI DVB-T budget card with linuxtv-dvb-1.1.0 driver
> > on Linux 2.4.24.
> > 
> > If I run vdr (1.3.6) as the first application after the reboot, I don't get
> > any signal.. mplayer doesn't work either after this. mplayer complains that
> > dvb streaming read fails.
> > 
> > But, If I run mplayer as the first application after the reboot, it works
> > well. After running mplayer, vdr works too. And mplayer works after vdr too
> > in this case :)
> > 
> > So, If I run vdr before mplayer, it somehow breaks the driver.. I guess.
> > Any ideas? There's no errors in the logs. Reloading the drivers doesn't
> > help. 
> > 
> > If you run vdr before mplayer, only solution is to reboot to get the dvb
> > card working again.. weird :)
> 
> This sounds interesting. What frontend?
> 

saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'.
saa7146_core: found saa7146 @ mem d0a51000 (revision 1, irq 11)
(0x13c2,0x1005).
DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T  PCI).
TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T  PCI adapter 0 has MAC addr = mac:goes:here
DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (Grundig 29504-401)...


> The only thing I can imagine is that vdr calls some ioctl
> before the frontend is fully initialized (the driver should
> prevent this, of course), and then the frontend
> crashes and needs to be power-cycled.
> 
> Can anyone else reproduce this?
> 

This is reproducible for me atleast.. happens every time.

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