[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-kernel and upcoming Linux kernel 2.6

2003-12-22 Thread Oliver Endriss
On Saturday 20 December 2003 19:09, Michael Hunold wrote: > As one of the last bigger changes, the core developers decided to remove > the firmware from the av7110/dvb-ttpci driver. I know that this is a > controversial step, so I'd like to explain it further. >... > As a first step, the av7110 f

[linux-dvb] channels file for scan for Darwin Australia

2003-12-22 Thread Malcolm Caldwell
Here is my apps/scan/dvb-t/au-Darwin file for Darwin Australia. Out of curiosity: In Australia channels can be 125Khz off centre. When I scan the scan picks up from the information on air that there are channels I have specified in my file but without the 125Khz. What is wrong here? Is the inf

[linux-dvb] Re: Difference btw Binary Only Kernel Modules and Firmware

2003-12-22 Thread Malcolm Caldwell
Not that I can add much to this discussion but... On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 23:12, Egon Single wrote: > Just a philisophical question. Most of you will know that binary only kernel > modules are real evil. You just have to listen to Linus who keeps repeating > this. Now I ask myself what is difference

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] new video event and ioctl

2003-12-22 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Felix Domke wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > >The V4 API has: > > > > unsigned int frame_rate; /* in frames per 1000sec */ > > > > > I'm against this. > > The reason is that arbitrary framerates are not allowed in MPEG-2 > (correct me if i'm wrong, i'm currently too lazy to read 13818-

[linux-dvb] Re: linux-2.6.0-test8 with dvb-kernel crashes

2003-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Laurence, On 24.10.2003 09:00, Laurence Culhane schrieb: I came across this problem a few months ago. I do have more than 1GB of RAM so felt I should be enabling the high memory support. I've been commenting out the BUG call that causes the problem (see below) with no ill effects. I'd be

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] fix oops from removing running dvb_net

2003-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Emard, I just noticed that latest 05* patch won't compile with 2.4, so here's the update with modified 05-getif2.patch and also the joint patch for all patches for the testers to simplify the patching Thanks! I just tried the joint patch and unfortunately it has the same problems as the la

[linux-dvb] Re: 2.6.0 and firmware patches?

2003-12-22 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello, yesterday, while recording something on second card and zapping on first one, I got same errors in /var/log/kernel/warnings: Dec 21 21:09:34 greg kernel: saa7146: unregister extension 'dvb'. Dec 21 21:11:14 greg kernel: saa7146: register extension 'dvb'. Dec 21 21:11:14 greg kernel: saa714

[linux-dvb] Re: 2.6.0 and firmware patches?

2003-12-22 Thread Lars von Wedel
Hello, > Of course this shouldn't be, but > we'll only see that when users start to use 2.6. 8-( To be honest, I'd rather like to invest my time into the future... Someone should (must) find out anyway what's going wrong. > You don't see anything in the syslog? Ooops, should look into kern.log, n

[linux-dvb] Re: driver snapshots dvb-kernel ?

2003-12-22 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2003 19:47 schrieb Michael Hunold: > Hello Steffen, > > > I have a FF rev 1.3 and a skystar2 rev 2.6b here. I had the last > > weeks/days dvb-kernel running, because i need it for the skystar. I > > did yesterday accidently a cvs update without saving the previous > > status

[linux-dvb] Re: driver snapshots dvb-kernel ?

2003-12-22 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2003 19:34 schrieb Steffen Barszus: > Hi ! Thanks The thread "2.6.0 and firmware patches?" helped me out. I was a bit blind I guess ;) Sorry > Summary: > - DVB doesn't support SS2 2.6b > - dvb-kernel doesn't compile on 2.4 because of missing firmware > - firmware is not

[linux-dvb] Re: 2.6.0 and firmware patches?

2003-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Lars, You need to download the firmware from the webpage, You mean dvb-ttpci-01.fw from linuxtv.org/download/dvb ? Yes. I'm not the av7110/firmware expert here, but: under what circumstances picture/sound get lost? Live-TV, playback of recordings? Right after the start, after 2 hours? I lea

[linux-dvb] Re: 2.6.0 and firmware patches?

2003-12-22 Thread Lars von Wedel
Hello, > You shouldn't use the patches from "patches-2.6" then. The firmware was > removed, so it's not possible to compile the driver statically into the > kernel any more, as long as you don't have the right > firmware-hotplug-loading stuff at hand. Okay. I used makelinks already anyway -- good

[linux-dvb] Re: driver snapshots dvb-kernel ?

2003-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Steffen, I have a FF rev 1.3 and a skystar2 rev 2.6b here. I had the last weeks/days dvb-kernel running, because i need it for the skystar. I did yesterday accidently a cvs update without saving the previous status. You can check out older version of the CVS by date. CVS told me that the

[linux-dvb] driver snapshots dvb-kernel ?

2003-12-22 Thread Steffen Barszus
Hi ! I have a FF rev 1.3 and a skystar2 rev 2.6b here. I had the last weeks/days dvb-kernel running, because i need it for the skystar. I did yesterday accidently a cvs update without saving the previous status. CVS told me that the firmware is out of the repository. Compiling the driver for 2

[linux-dvb] Re: 2.6.0 and firmware patches?

2003-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Lars, I see. The documentation somehow made me think I needed both... Adding the above paragraph from your answer to the README might be helpful. Agreed. I'll add it. You description is very vague: what crashes - the kernel or the av7110 driver? What makes you believe it's the av7110 driver

[linux-dvb] Re: 2.6.0 and firmware patches?

2003-12-22 Thread Lars von Wedel
Hello, > The patches in "patches-2.6" sync the 2.6.0 release with the > "dvb-kernel" CVS, ie. you get the most recent version of the drivers > without the need to use the "makelinks" script to directly patch your > driver. These patches are send to the kernel maintainer and become part > of 2.6.1.

[linux-dvb] Re: 2.6.0 and firmware patches?

2003-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Lars, I'm using the dvb-kernel with 2.6.0-t9 (Debian, mostly woody; Nexus DVB-s 2.1) for a couple of days now. I see a number of patches in the patches-2.6 directory. What are they for? Could they improve stability? Usually you use the "makelinks" script to -- well -- make links from the CV

[linux-dvb] need help with linux dvb DST driver

2003-12-22 Thread ABBAS AL-MUTAWA
Hi after insmod the following modules successfully modprobe dvb_core dvb_shutdown_timeout=0 modprobe video-buf modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x68 modprobe bt878 modprobe dst dst_type_flags=4 modprobe dvb-bt8xx i tried the test_dvr, szap,..., but all not works it is looking for /dev/dvb/vide

[linux-dvb] 2.6.0 and firmware patches?

2003-12-22 Thread Lars von Wedel
Hello, I'm using the dvb-kernel with 2.6.0-t9 (Debian, mostly woody; Nexus DVB-s 2.1) for a couple of days now. I see a crash per day or so and decided to uprade to final 2.6.0 and the most recent dvb-kernel. I see a number of patches in the patches-2.6 directory. What are they for? Could they im

[linux-dvb] Re: [inbox] Re: Difference btw Binary Only Kernel Modules and Firmware

2003-12-22 Thread Ralph Metzler
Egon Single writes: > > IMHO it's ok to have firmware in dedicated processors on extension > > hardware, as long as you have access to the necessary specifications for > > the communication protocol with other parts of the system (which is > > lacking for the av7110 firmware I admit) > > Thi

[linux-dvb] Re: [inbox] Re: Difference btw Binary Only Kernel Modules and Firmware

2003-12-22 Thread Egon Single
Hi Michael > IMHO it's ok to have firmware in dedicated processors on extension > hardware, as long as you have access to the necessary specifications for > the communication protocol with other parts of the system (which is > lacking for the av7110 firmware I admit) This means that using the fir

[linux-dvb] Re: DEC 2000-t troubles with 2.4 kernel

2003-12-22 Thread Holger Waechtler
Des Herriott wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: Des Herriott wrote: If there's any interest, I can post my channels.conf file for the Hannington transmitter when it's ready. yes, please do so! Sorry I didn't get this done sooner - been having fun getting everything working together. Attached i

[linux-dvb] Re: Difference btw Binary Only Kernel Modules and Firmware

2003-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Egon, Now I ask myself what is difference between binary only kernel modules and the binary only firmware in the DVB driver? You have to distinguish *where* your binary only code is running. The code from a binary only kernel module is running on your host cpu and threatens the stability o

[linux-dvb] Difference btw Binary Only Kernel Modules and Firmware

2003-12-22 Thread Egon Single
Just a philisophical question. Most of you will know that binary only kernel modules are real evil. You just have to listen to Linus who keeps repeating this. Now I ask myself what is difference between binary only kernel modules and the binary only firmware in the DVB driver? The following appear

[linux-dvb] Re: need help with linux dvb driver

2003-12-22 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi, > //You cannot use /dev/video0 for a budget > > do you mean that Twinhav VP1020 cannot used > /dev/video0, infact VDR and xawtv tries to used this > device and gives an error!!! > > // xawtv will not work as it is... You will have to > use > Again i say the same you cannot use a budge

[linux-dvb] Re: DEC 2000-t troubles with 2.4 kernel

2003-12-22 Thread Des Herriott
Holger Waechtler wrote: Des Herriott wrote: If there's any interest, I can post my channels.conf file for the Hannington transmitter when it's ready. yes, please do so! Sorry I didn't get this done sooner - been having fun getting everything working together. Attached is a working channels.con

[linux-dvb] Re: need help with linux dvb driver

2003-12-22 Thread ABBAS AL-MUTAWA
Hi Thanks //You cannot use /dev/video0 for a budget do you mean that Twinhav VP1020 cannot used /dev/video0, infact VDR and xawtv tries to used this device and gives an error!!! // xawtv will not work as it is... You will have to use > mplayer and pipe the > output to mplayer... thanks for t

[linux-dvb] Nebula DigiTV analog support?

2003-12-22 Thread Joe Mackay
Hi, I've got a Nebula DigiTV card, which works fine with DVB broadcasts under kernel 2.6.0. However, I was wondering if there were any plans to support the card's analog inputs? Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask; if so, would it be better to ask the BTTV maintainers? Cheers, J. --

[linux-dvb] Re: need help with linux dvb driver

2003-12-22 Thread Manu Abraham
> in fact, i try everythings just to get this card > working, after i insmod the "dst" and fail to get the > VDR or xawtv to work with, i tried to insmod the > "CX24110" to see if it works, but nothings happen, the > i tried remove the "dst" and insmod it again with > "DST_TYPE_FLAGS=0", > "DST_TY

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] new video event and ioctl

2003-12-22 Thread Holger Waechtler
Carsten Juttner wrote: Felix Domke wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: The V4 API has: unsigned int frame_rate; /* in frames per 1000sec */ I'm against this. The reason is that arbitrary framerates are not allowed in MPEG-2 (correct me if i'm wrong, i'm currently too lazy to read 13818-2 ag

[linux-dvb] Re: Losless Section Demux version 1.4

2003-12-22 Thread Holger Waechtler
Emard wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:47:19PM +0100, Andreas Oberritter wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 19:04, Emard wrote: The memcpy() issue should not be too hard to resolve, just never copy more than a complete section and reset the crc seed appropriatly. The performance impact should be neg

[linux-dvb] AW: Re: need help with linux dvb driver

2003-12-22 Thread Lothar Springob
I have the same problem: VDR does not work with Typhoon DVBs (no MPEG decoder). Now I am waiting for an DXR3 card I bought at eBay. I hope that it will work then. Lothar > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Nico > Gesendet: Mon

[linux-dvb] Re: need help with linux dvb driver

2003-12-22 Thread Nico
As far as I know yes. You may also try one of VDR's plugins such as streamdev (to stream the TS over your lan), but it didn't work for me because it seems it requires VDR's gui to be configured and enabled . ABBAS AL-MUTAWA wrote: hi Thanks sorry, i did not understand you. do you mean that

[linux-dvb] Re: need help with linux dvb driver

2003-12-22 Thread Nico
VDR works only with FF cards or budget cards (like yours) + additional hardware decoder (like Creative DXR3). ABBAS AL-MUTAWA wrote: Hi first Thanks for replying me fastly. in fact, i try everythings just to get this card working, after i insmod the "dst" and fail to get the VDR or xawtv to wor

[linux-dvb] Re: need help with linux dvb driver

2003-12-22 Thread ABBAS AL-MUTAWA
Hi first Thanks for replying me fastly. in fact, i try everythings just to get this card working, after i insmod the "dst" and fail to get the VDR or xawtv to work with, i tried to insmod the "CX24110" to see if it works, but nothings happen, the i tried remove the "dst" and insmod it again with "