[vdr] Re: Driver 1117, DVB-C and VDR (was: RE: Video Disk Recorder version 0.99pre1)

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Carsten Koch wrote:
> 
> Stephan Schreiber wrote:
> >
> > > The latest driver version I am using (including a patch to make
> > > still pictures
> > > work) is available at
> > >
> > >     ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/pub/people/kls/vdr/siemens_dvb-0.9-20011117.tgz
> > >
> > > Have fun!
> > >
> > > Klaus Schmidinger
> >
> > That new driver version breaks video tuning on my Siemens DVB-C Card with
> > VDR.
> > I was using 2001-10-03 so far, which has the annoying side effect that it
> > needs about 15 minutes to tune correctly the first time (from then it works
> > well).
> > Loading the newer one first, removing it and then loading 2001-10-03 rids me
> > of that problem.
> > But when using the new driver with VDR, the screen remains black.
> > make insmod tunes to ZDF.info correctly, but as soon as I start VDR the
> > screen turns black (sound is there).
> 
> I am using DVB-S and the new driver.
> I have a similar problem: Sometimes during channel switching the
> screen remains black and VDR shows no reaction to any remote control
> commands (no video, no OSD). Strangely, the watchdog timer does not hit!
> Once, I allowed it to sit like that all night and it was unfrozen the
> next morning by a timer recording, AFAIR without a restart.
> Because of that, I have now defined an irexec command that allows
> me to restart vdr manually. This always works.
> Sometimes after the restart I press a channel number digit and that
> digit is displayed normally, but then instead of switching to that
> channel, the OSD simply stays as it is. When I restart a second time,
> things usually work.
> Has anyone else observed this?

I have been using driver 2001-11-17 with DVB-S for quite a while now and
never had any such problem.

Klaus
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