From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:54785 "EHLO mail-wg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754703Ab2GJWyd (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:54:33 -0400 Received: by wgbdr13 with SMTP id dr13so432543wgb.1 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:54:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FFCB2A4.4040108@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:54:28 +0200 From: poma MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Devin Heitmueller , linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pctv452e References: <4FF4697C.8080602@nexusuk.org> <4FF46DC4.4070204@iki.fi> <4FF4911B.9090600@web.de> <4FF4931B.7000708@iki.fi> <4FF5A350.9070509@iki.fi> <4FF6B121.6010105@iki.fi> <9btic9-vd5.ln1@wuwek.kopernik.gliwice.pl> <835kc9-7p4.ln1@wuwek.kopernik.gliwice.pl> <4FF77C1B.50406@iki.fi> <4FF97DF8.4080208@iki.fi> <4FFA996D.9010206@iki.fi> <4FFB2129.2070301@gmail.com> <4FFC4F71.4000809@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/10/2012 05:58 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:51 AM, poma wrote: >>> Is this pctv452e device known to have poor reception? > > Traditionally speaking, these problems are usually not the hardware > itself - it tends to be crappy Linux drivers. Somebody gets support > working for a chip on some product, and then somebody else does a > cut/paste of the code to make some other product work. They see it > getting signal lock under optimal tuning conditions and declare > success. > > Making any given device work *well* tends to be much harder than > making it work at all. > > Want to rule out bad hardware design? Drop it into a Windows machine > and see how it performs. If it works fine under Windows but poorly > under Linux, then you definitely have a Linux driver problem. > > Devin > This one is for Marx? cheers, poma