[vdr] Re: Reliable DVB-Driver

[Thomas Keil <tk@commedia-group.com>]

Andreas Schultz schrieb:

>Hi,
>
>On Monday 09 September 2002 03:52, Thomas Keil wrote:
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>>On Friday, I somehow (in connection with cut&paste) managed to "rpm -e
>>*" my system.
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>might i suggest that use 'rm -rf .* ' next time, it's faster and does the same 
>job *g*
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*G* thanks for the hint
I don't know how this could happen, I marked a name of a rpm-package in 
Mozilla.
Then I wanted to paste this name behind the waiting rpm-command in the 
shell, but instead there came "<foo> <bar> * <^M>". Rpm said like "don't 
know foor, bar either, but I know *!", the harddisk went "brrrrrrt" and 
the system was gone :(
Funny part ist that in the Mozilla window the name of the package was 
still marked, so don't ask me where the * <^M> came from :p

>>I used this occasion to renew my system to a RedHat 7.3, but
>>unfortunately since then I had around seven ARM-crashes (which I haven't
>>had for months before...).
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>ARM crashes should only be related to firmware problems (or maybe 
>overheating). They shouldn't be relate to you distri, anyhow RedHat uses a 
>"strange" gcc version which might or might contribute to driver problems.
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2.96, anyone that tried to compile MPlayer with that knows that ;-)
Lacking a gcc > 2.96 for the moment I compiled the driver with 2.96, 
maybe I should try it with a different compiler...

>I have been running a NEWSTRUCT driver directly checked out from cvs for the 
>last few day without ARM crashes or any other problems on a DVB-s 1.3
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>The drivers that Klaus provides on his page are generaly also quite stable and 
>tested.
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I guess I'm going to try the NEWSTRUCHT driver then...

Thanks for the help :-)