Hi, I have following system: - two Technisat Airstar2 PCI card (budget cards) - one Technisat Skystar2 (budget card) - Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT - Sempron 2800+ - ASUS motherboard - gentoo (updated to half a week old snapshot) - kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 - udev 064 - vdr 1.3.27 -- softdevice cvs (31.7.)
I feed input of the second card from output of the first, to which input I feed the terrestial antenna signal. If I feed output of the second card to TV, I get proper picture as long as the computer is on.
My problem is that while I record one program, and change channel to another, which is not in the same channel transponder (?/multiplexer) as the one is recorded, I get the error: device 3 has no lock, can't attach receiver.
I've increased TUNER_LOCK_TIMEOUT value of device.c in vdr directory (one note that I found from google search maybe from archived email of this mailinglist), but that does not change anything else, than that I got the error message after the time defined in that file.
If I run two channels from different transponder with tzap at the same time, there is no errors.
I've experienced this with all vdr, softdevice and kernel 2.6.11/12 combinations, which I have had during half a year.
Yesterday I even tried patched drivers accoording to recommendation, which I found from this mailinglist (Air/SkyStar2 IRQ stop (partial) fix; Wed Jun 22 21:17:09). The problem exist still.
/var/log/messages: Aug 1 22:15:47 miuvdr vdr[8211]: record /video/@Mexican_(K15)/2005-08-01.22:15.50.99.rec Aug 1 22:15:47 miuvdr vdr[8211]: creating directory /video/@Mexican_(K15) Aug 1 22:15:47 miuvdr vdr[8211]: creating directory /video/@Mexican_(K15)/2005-08-01.22:15.50.99.rec Aug 1 22:15:47 miuvdr vdr[8211]: recording to '/video/@Mexican_(K15)/2005-08-01.22:15.50.99.rec/001.vdr' Aug 1 22:15:47 miuvdr vdr[8259]: file writer thread started (pid=8259, tid=589843) Aug 1 22:15:47 miuvdr vdr[8260]: recording thread started (pid=8260, tid=606228) Aug 1 22:15:51 miuvdr vdr[8257]: [VideoOut]: 720x576 [0,0 720x576] -> 1024x768 [0,9 1024x750] Aug 1 22:15:51 miuvdr vdr[8257]: [VideoOut]: 720x576 [0,0 720x576] -> 768x576 [0,7 768x562] Aug 1 22:15:53 miuvdr vdr[8211]: timer 1 (3 2215-0115 '@Mexican (K15)') set to event Ma 01.08.2005 23:30-00:10 'Pisnesmies Toni' Aug 1 22:15:56 miuvdr vdr[8211]: switching to channel 1 Aug 1 22:15:56 miuvdr vdr[8253]: transfer thread ended (pid=8253, tid=491531) Aug 1 22:15:56 miuvdr vdr[8211]: buffer stats: 66176 (3%) used Aug 1 22:15:56 miuvdr vdr[8211]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used Aug 1 22:16:01 miuvdr vdr[8211]: ERROR: device 3 has no lock, can't attach receiver! Aug 1 22:16:01 miuvdr vdr[8211]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used Aug 1 22:16:06 miuvdr vdr[8211]: ERROR: device 3 has no lock, can't attach receiver!
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