[mythtv-users] Recent kernels' DVB drivers now report signal strength

Preston Crow pc-mythtv07a at crowcastle.net
Mon May 14 13:03:52 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:35 -0400, Preston Crow wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 11:27 -0400, Preston Crow wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:22 -0400, Preston Crow wrote:
> > > More importantly, has this been discussed on the DVB lists?  I assume
> > > that's the appropriate place, as this doesn't seem to be
> > > Myth-specific.
> > 
> > http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-May/017722.html
> > 
> > So answering my own question, yes, this has been discussed on the DVB
> > lists, and they seem to have found a bad patch, which has been reverted
> > on May 3rd.  I don't know when the correction will make it into the
> > mainline kernels.
> > 
> > If I'm reading the kernel change log correctly:
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/214179/
> >       V4L/DVB (4883): Fix TD1316 tuner for DVBC
> > This went in as part of 2.6.20-rc1, so 2.6.19.7 should be the latest
> > good kernel.
> 
> I can confirm that 2.6.19.7 works fine.  My DVB cards tune just fine.

And it looks like 2.6.22-rc1 has the fix:
    V4L/DVB (5593): Budget-ci: Fix tuning for TDM 1316 (160..200 MHz)



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