Markku Tavasti wrote:
I lost my temper with crashes with dxr3, and now I have DVB-S FF (Technotrend 1.3) to be used as output only. Here are pros and cons:
- display is not getting messed with OSD/mp3 plugin
- no more hard crashes where conputer needs reset. VDR watchdog takes care
- Jammed and killed by watchdog all the time. I had problems with DXR3, but now usability is worse. After pressing back from viewing recoderd program 50% it gets jammed and watchdog restart. There was recording running at the same time, and also noad running (with nice).
- Picture, all colors are too bright. I need to adjust brigtness, color and contrast (and still not happy). I suppose this would need some module parameter, but did not had time to study this far.
- After boot vdr thinks volume is 0, and when I start adjusting volume, for 0.5s it is FULL, then it gets to where it should be.
My system is P350, 224M memory, vdr 1.3.23, 2.4 kernel, dvb-kernel drivers from CVS ~2 weeks ago (needed CVS version for Airstar2)
I was expecting to get stable usable system by getting FF card, but no way. Any ideas what might the problem be:
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- Using DVB-S as output only is bad idea
Very bad idea [tm] if you have a rev. 1.3 DVB-S card. The ARM will crash very often without a sat signal.
Oliver