[vdr] Re: Problems with DVB

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

Dennis schwerdel wrote:

> Starting DVB on boot :
> 
> Aug 13 16:19:37 linux kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> Aug 13 16:19:37 linux kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (Technotrend/Hauppauge PCI rev2.1 or 2.2).
> Aug 13 16:19:39 linux kernel: DVB: AV7111(0) - firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, app 80002600
> Aug 13 16:19:39 linux kernel: DVB: AV7111(0) - firmware supports CI link layer interface
> Aug 13 16:19:41 linux kernel: stv0299.c: setup for tuner BSRU6, TDQB-S00x
> Aug 13 16:19:41 linux kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (STV0299/TSA5059/SL1935 based)...
> Aug 13 16:19:42 linux kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:11.5 to 64

This looks good. You should see something like "Convergence (c) 2000" on
your TV, which will scroll down after a few seconds.

> Aug 13 16:19:43 linux kernel: Got silent jpeg.

I've never seen this message before. This is not from the current DVB
drivers... (at least a 'grep' for jpeg doesn't yield any output)

> Starting VDR 1.1.25 ( on Suse-CD )
> 
> Aug 13 16:22:46 linux vdr[1906]: VDR version 1.1.25 started
> Aug 13 16:22:46 linux vdr[1906]: probing /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
> Aug 13 16:22:47 linux vdr[1909]: EIT processing thread started (pid=1909) - master
> Aug 13 16:22:47 linux vdr[1910]: tuner thread started on device 1 (pid=1910)
> Aug 13 16:22:47 linux vdr[1906]: probing /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
> Aug 13 16:22:47 linux vdr[1906]: found 1 video device
> Aug 13 16:22:47 linux vdr[1906]: setting primary device to 1
> Aug 13 16:22:47 linux vdr[1906]: SVDRP listening on port 2001
> Aug 13 16:22:47 linux vdr[1906]: ERROR: /dev/lircd: Connection refused
> Aug 13 16:22:47 linux vdr[1906]: Removing LIRC plugin
> Aug 13 16:22:47 linux vdr[1911]: KBD remote control thread started (pid=1911)
> Aug 13 16:22:47 linux vdr[1906]: remote control KBD - learning keys

Ok, VDR started, found your card and wants now to learn which key on your
keyboard should do what action. You should see some questions on TV, too.

> Aug 13 16:22:54 linux kernel: av71100: ARM crashed!

That's bad. You should reload the driver after this happens (cd
/usr/src/DVB/driver; make reload)

As you have a DVB-S card:
Did you already attach the dish to the card? It is said, that the driver
has problems, when a DVB-S card doesn't get a signal (I don't use DVB-S
myself). That might lead to the seen ARM crash.

This leads to another question:
Which version of the DVB driver do you use? preX, final, CVS (from when)?

> Starting VDR 1.2.2 ( compiled )
> 
> Aug 13 16:23:15 linux vdr[1920]: VDR version 1.2.2 started
> Aug 13 16:23:15 linux vdr[1920]: probing /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
> Aug 13 16:23:15 linux vdr[1920]: found 1 video device
> Aug 13 16:23:15 linux vdr[1920]: setting primary device to 1
> Aug 13 16:23:15 linux vdr[1920]: device 1 has no MPEG decoder
> Aug 13 16:23:15 linux vdr[1920]: SVDRP listening on port 2001
> Aug 13 16:23:15 linux vdr[1922]: KBD remote control thread started (pid=1922)
> Aug 13 16:23:15 linux vdr[1920]: remote control KBD - learning keys

This doesn't look as good as with 1.1.25, but this is probably due to the
ARM crash. Please try again with a freshly loaded driver.

> Does this help solving the problem ?

Much more than your initial mail ;)

Well, all in all it looks very good, but you really should see something
on the composite TV out. Does it still work with Windows, meaning: do you
still see a picture on your TV when uing Windows? (there is a slight
chance of killing the TV out of these cards...)

Cheers,
Juri



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