I have a Technotrend S-1500 DVB card:
04:01.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH Device 1017
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap-
> "A couple of months" triggers me: for as far as I am aware dvb decoder
> cards need regular 'entitlement messages' to continue to work. And
> when the card is not in an active system for a long time it misses those
> messages and gets shut out. You need to ask the card issuer to re-activate
> the
