From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from webmail.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.151]:41387 "EHLO webmail.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754102AbZBWXDK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:03:10 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "sonofzev@iinet.net.au" To: sonofzev@iinet.net.au, Michael Krufky Subject: Re: running multiple DVB cards successfully.. what do I need to know?? (major and minor numbers??) Reply-To: sonofzev@iinet.net.au Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:03:04 +0900 Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: <40915.1235430184@iinet.net.au> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thanks Mike Is this likely to stop the "Incorrect Readback of kernel version issue as well?" cheers Allan On Mon Feb 23 17:57 , Michael Krufky sent: >On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:49 PM, sonofzev@iinet.net.au >sonofzev@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> Some of you may have read some of my posts about an "incorrect firmware readback" >> message appearing in my dmesg, shortly after a tuner was engaged. >> >> I have isolated this problem, but the workaround so far has not been pretty. >> On a hunch I removed my Dvico Fusion HDTV lite card from the system, running now >> only with the Dvico Fusion Dual Express. >> >> The issue has gone, I am not getting the kdvb process hogging cpu cycles and this >> message has stopped. >> >> I had tried both letting the kernel (or is it udev) assign the major and minor >> numbers and I had tried to manually set them via modprobe.conf (formerly >> modules.conf, I don't know if this is a global change or specific to Gentoo).... >> >> I had the major number the same for both cards, with a separate minor number for >> each of the three tuners, this seems to be the same. >> >> Is this how I should be setting up for 2 cards or should I be using some other >> type of configuration. > >Allan, > >I recommend to use the 'adapter_nr' module option. You can specify >this option in modprobe.conf -- the name of this file is >distro-specific. > >For instance, to make the dual card appear before the lite card: > >options cx23885 adapter_nr=0,1 >options dvb-bt8xx adapter_nr=2 > >to make the lite card appear before the dual card: > >options cx23885 adapter_nr=0 >options dvb-bt8xx adapter_nr=1,2 > >I hope you find this helpful. > >Regards, > >Mike >)