Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] experimental support for C-1501

From: Sigmund Augdal <sigmund@snap.tv>
To: siestagomez@web.de
Cc: linux-dvb <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] experimental support for C-1501
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:33:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213626832.6543.23.camel@pascal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080616142616.75F9C3BC99@waldorfmail.homeip.net>

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 16:26 +0200, siestagomez@web.de wrote:
> Sigmund Augdal schrieb: 
> 
> > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 08:14 +0300, Arthur Konovalov wrote:
> >> SG wrote:
> >> > The patch works quite well and nearly all channels seem to work.
> >> > 
> >> > But when tuning to some radio channels I'll get this kernel message:
> >> > 
> >> > saa7146 (0) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for end of xfer
> >> > 
> >> > Also I'm not able to tune to 'transponder 386000000 6900000 0 3' which works
> >> > smoothly when using Win32.
> >> > 
> >> > initial transponder 386000000 6900000 0 3
> >> >  >>> tune to: 386:M64:C:6900:
> >> > WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
> >> >  >>> tune to: 386:M64:C:6900: (tuning failed)
> >> > WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
> >> > ERROR: initial tuning failed
> >> > dumping lists (0 services)
> >> > Done. 
> >> 
> >> Yes, I discovered too that tuning to frequency 386MHz has no lock.
> >> VDR channels.conf: TV3:386000:C0M64:C:6875:703:803:0:0:1003:16:1:0 
> >> 
> >> At same time, 394MHz (and others) works.
> > Hi. 
> > 
> > Both transponders reported to not tune here has different symbolrates
> > from what I used for my testing. Maybe this is relevant in some way.
> > Could you please compare this with the channels that did tune to see if
> > there is a pattern? 
> > 
> > About the i2c message, I get that every now and then here as well, but I
> > have not seen any ill effect from it. I also see that on some other TT
> > cards so I think that might be unrelated to the demod/tuner. 
> > 
> > Regards 
> > 
> > Sigmund Augdal
> 
> The symbolrate is the same on all other working channels. 
> 
> Regarding the i2c message when watching video I'll get this only once but 
> when tuning to a radio channel my log gets flooded and it seems to hangup. 
How does radio or not make a difference? As far as I know the card is
DVB only and should not care whether the tuned transponder contains
radio or video or whatever. Could you send a list of transponders that
work (with tuning parameters) and ones that doesn't?

Regards

Sigmund Augdal
> 
> Martin 
> 


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