Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-15 Thread Michael Hunold
ive developer any more, but I will help anybody to understand v4 better and help to take over development. Most critical for v4 is the data flow handling and making a good API to circumvent any stupid hardware limitations. But let's wait for some feedback from other people first. Best regards

[linux-dvb] Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] VBI OOPS 2.6.17.8

2006-08-14 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Philipp, I trimmed LKML from the CC list. on 14.08.2006 11:37 Philipp Matthias Hahn said the following: > Starting "kdetv" by accident on my Siemens DVB-C 1.x produced the > following OOPS, because kdetv did open "/dev/vbi0". The OOPS is > 100% reproduceable. > libzvbi:capture_v4l2k_new: /

[linux-dvb] LinuxTV.org CVS commit mailinglist

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Hunold
Hi, I'd like to remind everybody that the LinuxTV.org CVS commit mailinglist is available to the public, too. Unfortunately, this information wasn't available on the project webpage, so I updated it accordingly. Subscribe by sending a mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the subject "subscribe linu

[linux-dvb] Re: Driver in 2.6.8-rc2 and DVB-C

2004-07-28 Thread Michael Hunold
On 07/28/04 21:03, Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2004 20:42, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: It seems Al Viro broke dvb_usercopy(): --- dvb_functions.c.orig2004-07-28 20:39:23.0 +0200 +++ dvb_functions.c 2004-07-28 20:21:23.0 +0200 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ int dvb_userc

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] Fix xx: videodev has no release callback.

2004-07-28 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Kenneth, On 07/28/04 16:52, Kenneth Aafløy wrote: would this be an okay change to fix the saa7146 extension videodev sysfs release problem? Looks good. I also thought about only modifying the dvb drivers to fix this, but because of the device_template in saa7146_fops, it is impossible to

[linux-dvb] Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: The DVB major device number has changed

2004-07-28 Thread Michael Hunold
Hi, On 07/27/04 19:39, Oliver Endriss wrote: On Tuesday 27 July 2004 19:20, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: The new offical major number is 212. I've changed the sources for dvb-kernel (dvbdev.h and MAKEDEV-DVB.sh). People who don't use devfs will have to recreate their devices. Imho it would be bette

[linux-dvb] Re: Segmentation fault in test_memory_input

2004-07-27 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 07/27/04 13:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I am trying to run the DVB 4.0 test application test_memory_input, but it's giving "segmentation fault" error as given below. During debugging we came to know that it's happening while setting the source for demux. All other test appli

[linux-dvb] Re: Unable to rmmod stv0299 as of yesterday

2004-07-12 Thread Michael Hunold
Hi, On 07/11/04 06:28, Kenneth Aafløy wrote: I belive my first commit was correct, except for the fact that I missed the that I had placed the module_put call below a return statement, doh. I don't dare commit more errors, so I'm just going to wait untill Michael or any of the other gurus can c

[linux-dvb] Re: SAA7146 Cropping

2004-07-07 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, btw: please fix your mailer or avoid Yahoo Mail completely. On 07/07/04 19:41, Jeremy Jones wrote: Do you want to compose a "screen" from multiple elements, like live video, static graphics and text? This is exactly what I want to do! The Nexus-s card has an OSD which can be used t

[linux-dvb] Re: SAA7146 Cropping

2004-07-07 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Jeremy, On 07/07/04 17:41, Jeremy Jones wrote: I am trying to develop a DVB application which has a PIG (Picture In Graphic) feature common to most DVB-S IRDs. To achieve this I need to shrink the video down to 1/4th of the screen and place it in the upper right hand corner. After diggin

[linux-dvb] Re: tda1004x.c and support of future firmware

2004-07-02 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Luke, On 07/01/04 23:37, Luke Anderson wrote: as you may be aware, the firmware for tda1004x is stored in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/tda1004x.bin. However a problem arises whenever a new firmware is released because the offsets are different within that file. May I suggest that tda1004x.c

[linux-dvb] Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] msleep() and delay function (DVB)

2004-07-02 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 07/01/04 23:10, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: [Not subscribed to linux-dvb, so please CC back if replying from that list] I'm working on one of the KernelJanitor/TODO items, specifically converting appropriate calls to schedule_timeout() to msleep() calls (Addendum by Greg KH to original

[linux-dvb] Re: More than 4 DVB cards - again

2004-06-30 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Irek, On 06/25/04 08:56, Irek Defee wrote: It is strange that this issue has been downgraded comparing to kernel 2.4. For me it’s a huge factor not to upgrade to 2.6:). The "problem" is that devfs in 2.4 has the "feature" that a device node is not tightly coupled to a major/minor pair. So i

[linux-dvb] Re: More than 4 DVB cards - again

2004-06-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 06/22/04 10:27, Peter Maersk-Moller wrote: Seriously, using "extended minor number". How do I do that ? Are you talking about changing something in a config file or are you talking about rewriting the device driver ? This must be changed in the dvb-core device handling. What is the limita

[linux-dvb] Re: [patch-rfc] frontend firmware

2004-06-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Kennth, On 06/21/04 22:59, Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Monday 21 June 2004 22:38, Michael Hunold wrote: while watching the European soccer championship, I converted the remaining drivers sp877x and alps_tdlb7 to the kernel i2c interface. I attached the patch to this mail. If nobody objects

[linux-dvb] Re: [patch-rfc] frontend firmware

2004-06-21 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Kenneth, while watching the European soccer championship, I converted the remaining drivers sp877x and alps_tdlb7 to the kernel i2c interface. I attached the patch to this mail. If nobody objects (testers welcome!) I'll submit it to CVS within the next days. CU Michael. ? a Index: drivers

[linux-dvb] Re: [patch] av7110.c - missing release_firmware

2004-06-21 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 06/21/04 20:23, Kenneth Aafløy wrote: Here is another one that adds release_firmware to av7110.c Thanks, applied. Kenneth CU Michael.

[linux-dvb] Re: [patch-rfc] frontend firmware

2004-06-21 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Kenneth, On 06/21/04 20:23, Kenneth Aafløy wrote: This patch implements firmware loading for frontends through a callback to the adapter. It probably is easier to just stuff the struct device into dvb_frontend, but I wanted to see the connection between the frontends and their adapters, so

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] kernel i2c driver for skystar2

2004-06-07 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 06/07/04 13:18, C.Y.M. wrote: Was this an additional change? --- dvb-kernel/linux/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c 2004-06-07 04:10:34.0 -0700 +++ /usr/src/Linux-DVB.CVS/dvb-kernel/linux/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c 2004-05-27 02:27:24.0 -0700 @@ -136,7 +136,6 @@

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] kernel i2c driver for skystar2

2004-06-07 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Vadim, On 06/07/04 09:13, Vadim Catana wrote: This patch allows the skystar2 driver to work with frontends which are converted to use kernel I2C (stv0299). Please apply. Thanks for the patch, it looks good. I applied it to the CVS, other Skystar2 users please test this and report any problem

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel-Opps

2004-06-04 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Christian, On 04.06.2004 21:44, Christian Gmeiner wrote: i am using a 2.6.5 kernel with recent cvs and get this in my dmesg: DVB: registering new adapter (KNC1 DVB-S). probe_tuner: try to attach to saa7146 (0) drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stv0299.c: setup for tuner BSRU6, TDQB-S00x Unable to

[linux-dvb] [PATCH][2.6] Convert tda1004x to kernel i2c, support kernel i2c for budget cards

2004-05-14 Thread Michael Hunold
kfree (fe); + return 0; + } + } + + up (&frontend_mutex); + return -EINVAL; +} + MODULE_PARM(dvb_frontend_debug,"i"); MODULE_PARM(dvb_shutdown_timeout,"i"); MODULE_PARM(dvb_override_frequency_b

[linux-dvb] Re: Question about dvb_frontend.c

2004-05-09 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 09.05.2004 13:17, Christian Gmeiner wrote: In dvb_frontend.c are these functions: dvb_register_frontend dvb_register_frontend_new Whats the difference of them? The dvb core has been using a separate i2c subsystem. Frontend drivers can register themselves with dvb_register_frontend

[linux-dvb] Re: empty /dev/dvb/ ?!

2004-05-08 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 08.05.2004 21:10, tilsch wrote: I try to get a KNC1-card working with a 2.6.5-kernel. I have no problems to load the modules (budget, stv0299) but there are no entries in /dev/dvb/... What is missing ? A proper report with some debug output from /var/log/messages perhaps? Seriously, we'

[linux-dvb] Re: Fwd: Re: DEBI irq oops, crashes: kernel 2.6 & Hyperthreading unusable with DVB

2004-05-08 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Udo, On 07.05.2004 16:56, Udo Wolter wrote: There might be a race condition somewhere wrt SMP -- as Johannes already pointed out, he'll have a look at it. Are there any kernel changes which could make my situation better ? The preemptive kernel parameter or the MSI vector based IRQs ? Or ev

[linux-dvb] Re: Fwd: Re: DEBI irq oops, crashes: kernel 2.6 & Hyperthreading unusable with DVB

2004-05-04 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 05/04/04 11:45, Udo Wolter wrote: PS: What does DEBI and GPIO stands for ? What is the purpose of those terms ? DEBI = Data Extension Bus Interface, the bus where all the communication with the av7110 is going through GPIO = General purpose I/O: some pins that can be used by externa

[linux-dvb] Re: Idea: support for more fs types

2004-05-02 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Christian, On 02.05.2004 13:12, Christian Gmeiner wrote: i have currently switched to an udev only system and it runs very nice, only the dvb-drivers need some handworking. I would now recommend an abstract device handling for the different fs types (proc, devfs and udev). like: dvb_reg

[linux-dvb] Re: SAA7146 does not work in Kernel 2.6

2004-05-01 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 30.04.2004 23:23, Stephan Böni wrote: Nice. xawtv works now (i have to use the "-nogl" flag), but only without any channel. I have a channel.conf file after installing vdr 1.2.6. When i try to execute vdr an error occures: # vdr vdr: no primary device found - using first device! Do i

[linux-dvb] Re: Warning with kernel 2.6.6-rc3

2004-04-30 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 04/29/04 15:47, Helmut Auer wrote: When compiling the brand new kernel 2.6.6-rc3 with gcc 3.3.2 I get the warnings: Warning: "errno" [drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda1004x.ko] undefined! WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.6-rc3/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda1004x.ko needs unknown symbol

[linux-dvb] Re: V4 API Implementation Q's

2004-04-30 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Rob, OK, from our discussions it sounds like it will be the responsibility of the code "underneath" the API to control the resources. We just specify the max number of *h/w* filters of each type - right? e.g. If you don't have dedicated record h/w then you should set the DVB_DMX_CAP_NUM_REC

[linux-dvb] Re: More V4 Demux API Q's

2004-04-30 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Rob, On 04/01/04 15:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the current status for multiple section filters on a single fd? Are you intending to support this, as there is a lot of h/w out there with this requirement? If we are to support it (which I strongly suggest we do), then we would need th

[linux-dvb] Re: V4 API questions

2004-04-30 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 04/01/04 12:02, Alasdair FARMER wrote: 1) The dvb_dmx_decoder_type does not support Audio > descriptor as a type. A good number of broadcasters > are starting to transmit this and it may have different > decode requirements from a normal audio channel I don't understand what an "audio de

[linux-dvb] Re: [help] Failed compile of linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1

2004-04-25 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 25.04.2004 05:55, Ty wrote: Can you confirm this is the correct set of actions? 1. get 2.6.5 kernel source from kernel.org 2. get patch-2.6.5-kraxel.gz from bytesex.org You don't need to apply this patch, it mostly affects analog-bttv-based cards. It doesn't harm, though. 3. decompres

[linux-dvb] Re: [help] Failed compile of linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1

2004-04-24 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 24.04.2004 10:33, Ty wrote: I (hopefully) have a simple problem that someone can help me solve. bt878 based cards are not easy to get running, especially with vendor kernels (see below). When I compile the linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1 using the build-2.4 directory I get 2 compile errors saying V

[linux-dvb] Re: SU1278@technotrend hardware

2004-04-23 Thread Michael Hunold
From: Michael Hunold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stv0299: Added seperate settings for SU1278 on Technotrend hardware In this particular case, I was only the maintainer that assembled the patches and forwarded them to Linus. These changes have been done by Andrew de Quincey -- i

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-kernel CVS branched for Linux 2.4

2004-04-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Jeremy, please remember: 1. DVB (aka the dvb core) does not equal dvb-ttpci (aka saa7146/av7110 driver). "DVB" nearly always means dvb-ttpci, but "dvb-kernel" has much more drivers (Skystar2, Twinhan, USB thingies) that never went into "DVB". 2. The DVB API version 3 won't be changed, ie

[linux-dvb] Re: dvbtune --> fd_dvr DEMUX DEVICE: : No such file or directory

2004-04-20 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Mario, On 04/20/04 20:32, Mario Ohnewald wrote: Hello, i have problems with dvbtune. # dvbtune -c 0 -f 10773250 -p H -s 22000 -n 251 FD 11: fd_dvr DEMUX DEVICE: : No such file or directory The error message is misleading. # lsmod Module Size Used by budget

[linux-dvb] Re: Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)

2004-04-20 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Mariao, I have a Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) which i want to use for Sky-Dsl. Due to the fact that i can not access that box with that card right now, i need to find out as much information as possible to get it runing once i am in front of that box. I had

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-kernel CVS branched for Linux 2.4

2004-04-20 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Wolfgang, On 04/19/04 21:57, Wolfgang Thiel wrote: I would love to switch to 2.6, but I cannot because of missing 2.6 drivers. I don't think I'm the only one... For me, I don't have access to the internet with 2.6 because there is no driver for AVM DSL SL USB available yet. I don't like to b

[linux-dvb] Re: Twinhan driver source

2004-04-15 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 04/14/04 12:55, Jamie Honan (by way of Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Manu, Michael Hunold has an 03T card. maybe send him the source and see if he's interested? Thanks for the offer, but all you guys did a great job writing the Twinhan driver, so I didn't

[linux-dvb] Re: Make the driver ready for sysfs/udev

2004-04-10 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 10.04.2004 14:20, Indy500 wrote: I know this question was asked for several weeks and the only answer was that it will not be "that big thing" to make your drivers ready for sysfs. Meanwhile I'm using only udev and it were nice if the DVB-Drivers would support udev. Unfortunately I'm

[linux-dvb] Re: LinuxDVB V4 API questions (3)

2004-04-08 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 04/07/04 12:55, Alasdair FARMER wrote: 1) I have a concern from a robustness perspective about > the way in which connections between demux's and decoders > is handled. If we assume that we have a demux feeding a > decoder, through a mmapped buffer. What happens if the file > handle

[linux-dvb] Re: LinuxDVB V4 API questions (3)

2004-04-08 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 04/07/04 15:55, Ralph Metzler wrote: Alasdair FARMER writes: > 2) With regard to playback of recordings I am unclear how this will work in the new model... If a recorded stream were being written to a demux then which instance (given that the handle is actually to a filter rather than

[linux-dvb] Re: LinuxDVB V4 API questions II

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 04/06/04 12:39, Alasdair FARMER wrote: 1) The DEMUX -> DECODER linkage : what mechanisms are > supported/promoted for transferring data between these > components. The API needs to bear in mind that these > can and often will be separate unconnected pieces of > hardware/software. To th

[linux-dvb] Re: V4 API questions

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 04/01/04 12:02, Alasdair FARMER wrote: Within a TS there are PIDs for what is called 'Audio Descriptor' data. >This is an audio stream which contains a description of what is happening >in a scene for the visually impaired. This audio data may need to be >processed and treated separate

[linux-dvb] Re: V4 API Implementation Q's

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Rob, Would the "query capability" ioctl return a "snap-shot" of the actual number of filters left of a certain type or would it return the max number of filters for each type? I would prefer the former, as you could easily have the scenario that there are 32 PID filters in a demux device th

[linux-dvb] Re: V4 API Implementation Q's

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Rob, On 03/26/04 16:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This leads me into the next point/question regarding output devices. Wouldn't it be better to have output demux devices such as PID filter, recording filter, section filter, decoder feed with each one allocated a different minor number. Then

[linux-dvb] Re: Compilation problems with 2.6 & CVS?

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 04/06/04 08:13, lamikr wrote: I took half a day from me to realize this in the first time. "vmlinux.lds.s" is created during the kernel build so before building drivers # cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5 # make Yes, right. Patching the kernel source with "makelinks" and recompiling kern

[linux-dvb] Re: Record Filters in V4 API

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Rob, On 04/05/04 15:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had to send this message again to the list. This is the 2nd time this has happened recently - any ideas why my messages don't seem to be getting through? The lists had to be migrated multiple times recently, so perhaps there were gaps

[linux-dvb] Re: List behaviour?

2004-04-05 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 04/05/04 19:49, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 17:51:51 +0400 Brad Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter Conrad wrote: I've unsubscribed myself from this list more than 4 weeks ago. All of a sudden I'm getting list mails again. What's up? Ditto.. Same for me. Indee

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] Ultra Light Encapsulation

2004-04-05 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Hilmar, On 03/31/04 11:11, Hilmar Linder wrote: [...] diff -ru linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/include/linux/dvb/net.h linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0-ULE/include/linux/dvb/net.h --- linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/include/linux/dvb/net.h 2004-01-17 17:59:46.0 +0100 +++ linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0-ULE/includ

[linux-dvb] New patches against 2.6.4

2004-03-15 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, I've put some new patches in the patches-2.6 directory of the dvb-kernel CVS, which can be applied to 2.6.4 to get the in-kernel driver synced to the CVS version. 01-DVB-dvb-misc-updates.diff 02-DVB-saa7146-updates.diff 03-DVB-dvb-core-frontend-revamp.diff 04-DVB-follow-frontend-changes.

[linux-dvb] TwinHan DVB-S (was Re: Re: Problems getting Pinnacle PCTV Sat to lock (Take 2) (fwd))

2004-03-13 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Nico, On 03/10/04 17:32, Nico wrote: worse problems with my Twinhan DVB-T: it *never* works with kernel > 2.6.1, whatever (reasonable) card type I choose: 0x68, 0x5e, 0x71; it always hangs my pc. What changed in bttv between 2.6.1 and the following versions? Am I the only one that can't u

[linux-dvb] Re: error trying to assign nonexistent symbol

2004-02-18 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Ben, On 02/18/04 14:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get an error error trying to assign nonexistent symbol when I type 'make menuconfig' or 'make oldconfig'. This error seems to be carried through to the modules themselves. When I insmod the dvb modules they have symbol problems, is this t

[linux-dvb] Re: Generating progressive video

2004-02-17 Thread Michael Hunold
On 02/17/04 21:05, Michael Plagge wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 20:53, Michael Hunold wrote: On 02/17/04 15:33, Michael Plagge wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 14:35, Michael Hunold wrote: On 02/16/04 23:38, Michael Plagge wrote: Anyway, what solution (ie. which gfx adapter) do you have in mind to put

[linux-dvb] Re: Generating progressive video

2004-02-17 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Michael, On 02/17/04 15:33, Michael Plagge wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 14:35, Michael Hunold wrote: On 02/16/04 23:38, Michael Plagge wrote: Anyway, what solution (ie. which gfx adapter) do you have in mind to put the result to your beamer via DVI? Especially for this i have bought a

[linux-dvb] Re: Generating progressive video

2004-02-17 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Juha, On 02/17/04 08:50, Juha Pahkala wrote: for example, i have a siemens dvb-c card with hw decoder. and i have a g400. i'd like to use the onboard hw decoder when decoding mpeg streams, but i don't want to use the tv-out of the siemens card since that prevents me from using any other soft

[linux-dvb] Re: Generating progressive video

2004-02-17 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Michael, On 02/16/04 23:38, Michael Plagge wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 21:45, Juha Pahkala wrote: Allow me to suggest something (hopefully not too stupid) Why not make this part of the 'softmpeg' library announced in direcrfb.org site a few weeks back. There is already CLE266 based hardwa

[linux-dvb] Re: linux kernel 2.6.2 insmod problem

2004-02-16 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, I upgraded to kernel 2.6.2 and was able to compile all my avermedia drivers, but when I try to insert them I get "insmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented" I don't know what this means the Avermedia HOWTO does not mention this problem. Has anyone with this kernel had this problem? Up

[linux-dvb] Re: overlay-problem -> pci-latency

2004-02-15 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Guido, On 15.02.2004 15:16, Guido Fiala schrieb: Hallo Michael, Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2004 13:50 schrieben Sie: I once introduced a bug that cause this, but this has been fixed for a long time now. (I just confirmed this with a fresh CVS driver) sorry - i didn't notice this. I was usin

[linux-dvb] Re: overlay-problem -> pci-latency

2004-02-15 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Guido, On 15.02.2004 15:28, Guido Fiala schrieb: Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2004 15:22 schrieben Sie: Guido Fiala wrote: Anyway, I'd like to ask you to try the "dvb-kernel" driver from CVS or the recent official release tarball. I tried http://linuxtv.org/download/dvb/linuxtv-dvb-1.1.0.tar.bz

[linux-dvb] Re: overlay-problem -> pci-latency

2004-02-15 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Guido, On 15.02.2004 13:03, Guido Fiala schrieb: Me (and someone else) noticed a problem with the overlay becoming black or turned of if an other window is partially before the overlay and clipping rectangles are used. I once introduced a bug that cause this, but this has been fixed for a

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-ttpci oops 2.4 / Re: videodev not in reuse

2004-02-15 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Gudio, On 15.02.2004 12:20, Guido Draheim schrieb: Guido Draheim wrote: Feb 15 11:47:17 pc3 kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00055a05 Feb 15 11:47:17 pc3 kernel: printing eip: Feb 15 11:47:17 pc3 kernel: c01382d5 Feb 15 11:47:17 pc3 kernel: *pde =

[linux-dvb] Re: bt8xx unres syms / Re: Re: linuxtv-dvb-install-destdir.patch

2004-02-15 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Guido, On 14.02.2004 22:20, Guido Draheim schrieb: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Guido Draheim wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: See README.bt8xx. Hmmm, it still does not say how to go about it as a packager. As far as I understand it one should not use dvb-bt8xx on a kernel without the ab

[linux-dvb] Re: videodev not in reuse / Re: Re: dvb-kernel modules pb in 2.4.21-0.13mdk

2004-02-15 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Guido, On 14.02.2004 12:04, Guido Draheim schrieb: And now I go with another pb, opening xawtv on the videodev makes it work, closing it and reopening it I gets me bogus messages about still being use - however there is no xawtv in ps -u and fuser /dev/v4l/video* does not show anything. - I

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-kernel modules pb in 2.4.21-0.13mdk

2004-02-14 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Guido, On 14.02.2004 01:31, Guido Draheim schrieb: Now finally, I want to check my two ttpci cards - before that I was to invent a modules.conf since linuxtv-dvb does not contain anymore some modules.conf file as it used to be in the old dvb-modules series. Anyway, one can guess a list base

[linux-dvb] Re: linuxtv-dvb-1.1.0 on 2.4mdk (just compiling)

2004-02-13 Thread Michael Hunold
On 13.02.2004 03:05, Guido Draheim schrieb: gcc -I/vol/8/rpm/BUILD/linuxtv-dvb-1.1.0/build-2.4/include -D__KERNEL__ -I/vol/7/src/linux-2.4.21-0.13mdk/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -DM

[linux-dvb] Re: new firmware format

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Anton, Anton A. Korzh wrote: one more question about firmware and driver compiling? whats better compile drivers as modules or compile it inside the kernel? People prefer to compile them as modules, so they can unload and reload the driver in case of a problem and have a clean start without

[linux-dvb] Re: Can't build dvb-kernel under 2.4

2004-02-03 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Tim, For several weeks I've been updating my dvb-kernel CVS tree and trying to build it, but each time the build fails. My original checkout of it near the start of January built fine but I'd like to get some of the updates to see if it fixes some things. ../linux/include -I . -DCONFIG_DVB_

[linux-dvb] Re: badness in interruptible_sleep_on_timeout

2004-01-29 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Andrew, Im posting this to the list as it may be of some intrest since it seems to be dvb related, the kernel is 2.6.2-rc2-mm1 and when using the tda1004x driver and budgetci with a pci nova-t i get: Badness in interruptible_sleep_on_timeout at kernel/sched.c:2254 Call Trace: [] interrup

[linux-dvb] Re: List 'linux-dvb' closed to public posts

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Linus, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Dave Jones wrote: *sigh*, anyone object to patches marking such mailing lists in MAINTAINERS as 'subscription only' ? Sounds like they shouldn't be in MAINTAINERS at all if they can't be posted to. I mean, what's the point? Please apply th

[linux-dvb] Re: New patches in patches-2.6

2004-01-18 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Gregoire, just after the tuning speed up of the av7110 I makelinked the 2.6.1-mm4 with the CVS and efectively from then the tuning is very fast ;-) Good to hear. Are there other change that should be tested (I have two Hauppauge rev 1.3 DVB-S(? No. Thank you very much, Grégoire CU

[linux-dvb] New patches in patches-2.6

2004-01-18 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello all, I just put new patches into "patches-2.6" that sync the latest available 2.6 kernel trees (2.6.1 or 2.6.1-mm4) with our LinuxTV.org CVS. So if you don't like to patch your kernel with "makelinks", then you can now try out the latest patches to get bleeding edge DVB drivers... ;-) I'

[linux-dvb] Re: 1.0.2 Release?

2004-01-18 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Steffen, I have the error pasted below since cvs update now. Before cvs update all was fine. I know that in the README it is stated that kernels < 2.4.23 wont work, but i dont think that 2.4.22-10mdk is that far from 2.4.23 ;) On 2004/01/05 18:12:46 I synced the whole Video4Linux-2 stuff

[linux-dvb] Re: 2.6.1 - dvb-ttpci: cannot request firmware!

2004-01-16 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Tilman, On 16.01.2004 23:34, Tilman Baumann schrieb: dvb doesn't work since my last kernel build. The only change i can remember is aktivating the DMA-IDE driver. Please have a look at the .../Documentation/dvb/ directory. The av7110 doesn't come with a firmware by default anymore. Follow t

[linux-dvb] Re: Fujitsu Siemens-DVB-C VIDIOC_G_TUNER

2004-01-16 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Carsten, On 17.01.2004 00:04, Carsten Prieß schrieb: On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:40:47 +0100 (CET) Patrick Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I only can help you with the flooded ttys: Someone (probably the maintainer of klog package) forget to set klog console log level. Edit /etc/init.d/klogd

[linux-dvb] Re: grabbing with transcode...

2004-01-16 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Stephan, I took the CVS of today and build it against a vanilla 2.4.24 I'd like to grab with transcode (don't ask me for the deep sense of doing this, but it is a kind of filtering I have to do, and the Real Producer - which I have not decided to use - has the same problems) with the foll

[linux-dvb] Re: problems compiling static firmware into kernel av7110

2004-01-15 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Slay, kernel 2.6.0 [...] any ideas ? thx Plain 2.6.0 is quite old regarding the DVB drivers, so please use 2.6.1-rc3 and try again. CU Michael. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.

[linux-dvb] Re: Re-enable DVB-C analog module

2004-01-10 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Dominik, On 10.01.2004 15:40, Dominik Strasser schrieb: with the attached patch I can again tune with my analog module. Thanks, applied. Johannes broke this when he did the split and the cleanups for the av7110 driver. Regards Dominik CU Michael. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EM

[linux-dvb] Re: mplayer playback through dvb takes 100% cpu time

2004-01-09 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello all, shortly after posting my previous mail, I found the problem: On 09.01.2004 20:44, Michael Hunold schrieb: > On 03.01.2004 22:33, Soeren Sonnenburg schrieb: I have inserted some debugging output into the dvb driver, but it did not reveal any problems. So I think it's an sync

[linux-dvb] Re: mplayer playback through dvb takes 100% cpu time

2004-01-09 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Soeren, I'm currently investigating this problem. I have inserted some debugging output into the dvb driver, but it did not reveal any problems. So I think it's an sync issue of mplayer. (see below) On 03.01.2004 22:33, Soeren Sonnenburg schrieb: I noticed a weirdness with mplayer and -v

[linux-dvb] Re: kernel BUG at saa7146_fops.c:52!

2004-01-09 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Dominik, On 09.01.2004 15:59, Dominik Strasser schrieb: Playing around with vdr/xawtv and my DVB-C analog module, I got the following Bug/OOPS kernel BUG at saa7146_fops.c:52! invalid operand: CPU:0 Interesting. I recently added some "ressource management" to the driver. The manag

[linux-dvb] Re: Sican / Sciworx DVB-S card

2004-01-07 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Gunther, could you tell me if the Sican / Sciworx DVBEAM300 DVB-S card is supported by the drivers or if someone has experiences with it getting it to run with Linux? This card is definately not supported by the LinuxTV.org drivers. In fact I've never heard of this card before. If someone i

[linux-dvb] mdelay() vs. schedule_timeout() in ves1820.c and skystar2.c

2004-01-02 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, skystar2.c contains 3 mdelay(20), one mdelay(10) and two mdelay(16) calls. ves1820.c contains two mdelay(50) calls. Can the driver authors please check if it's possible to change these multiple-ten-milliseconds busyloops for example with > set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); > schedu

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel crash in saa7146_fops.c:13

2004-01-02 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Anders, It crashes when I'm changing channels in MythTV or sometimes when I start watching live tv in MythTV It sometimes crashes when using xawtv and changing channels. Ok. Can you try and capture the oops and run it through "ksymoops"? Please send the output to me in private. MythTV i

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel crash in saa7146_fops.c:13

2004-01-02 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Anders, On 01.01.2004 22:06, Anders Hanson schrieb: I'm trying to set up a MythTV box with a Fijutsu Siemens DVB-C card including the analog module. Ok. The problem is that the system krashes quite often in saa7146_fops.c at row 13. I'm using the latest dvb-kernel cvs tree and have tried b

[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 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: 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] 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 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] 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] Re: 2.6 and firmware?

2003-12-20 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Gregoire, last problem solved in changing the order of the rmmod ;-) I have still to learn why I don't see my cards in /sys/class/firmware/ Did you successfully load the firmware, ie. is the card fully operational? If so, and if you used the hotplug firmware scripts, then the entry for yo

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

2003-12-20 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Nicolas, All this is described in the new "Documentation/dvb" directory, please read it. I just download the kernel sources, but I don't find such a directory. Did I miss something ? The vanilla 2.6.0 kernel does not contain the latest bunch of patches I was speaking of. They will be par

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

2003-12-20 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello all, I think all of you have noticed already that the official 2.6 Linux kernel is out. It's the first kernel that officially contains the LinuxTV.org DVB subsystem plus a variety of drivers for different DVB cards. Thanks to everyone who contributed! Because of the recent feature freeze

[linux-dvb] Re: Hotplug Firmware

2003-12-10 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Emard, I'd like to experiment with the hotplug and firmware loading. I installed latest hotplug for debian and now I'd like to load av7110 firmware with it. AFAICS dvb-ttpci loads compiled-in firmware Can someone enlighten me in few shell commands how to stop dvb-ttpci from loading the com

[linux-dvb] Re: Still getting segmentation faults when I modpro be bttv

2003-12-08 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Luke, Simply load the basic modules via modprobe: > modprobe bttv card=0x68 i2c_hw=1 I tried that and got this error, followed by a segfault: # modprobe bttv card=0x68 i2c_hw=1 Warning: ignoring i2c_hw=1, no such parameter in this module Segmentation fault The error above indicates that

[linux-dvb] Re: Still getting segmentation faults when I modprobe bttv

2003-12-07 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Luke, I've just finished my new attempt, starting again from scratch, mostly following advice from Vincenzo Di Massa and Michael Hunold. This is what I did: 1. Unpacked 2.4.23 kernel, configured with video4linux, i2c, etc. 2. Build kernel & modules & installed both 3. cvs co

[linux-dvb] Re: Dvb kernel w/Nebula chewing CPU time - SOLVED!

2003-12-04 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Clyde, Can you please prepare a patch that disables this interrupt pin for the Nebula cards? You can probably use the PCI vendor/device id to distinguish the device from others... I feel inclined to do better than that - the bttv module is really for analog cards - I think I might merge

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