[mythtv-users] will Nova-T 500 work?

[Eduard Huguet]

Hi,
   I thinks it's effectively more related to the USB layer than to the DVB
one. All I can say it's that the card seems to be mroe stable with
2.6.21kernel and HG drivers. I keep getting the (new) mt2060 error
message, but
it's way less frequent than before.

   Someone pointed in a message in LinuxTV list that maybe the Windows
driver included some special fixes for the USB host present in the card,
rather than for the DVB chipset. It seems logical, as again the progresses
in stability on this card seems to be more related to the progresses on USB
layout in kernel that in the DVB modules themselves (AFAIK, they have only
solved the 'oops', but not the underlying USB disconnect that provocated
it).

   BTW, I'm not pretty sure that restarting mythbackend is enough when this
error appears. My experience tells me that sometimes doing so doesn't solve
anything and the message keeps appearing in kernel log, so a true reboot is
required.

Cheers,
  Eduard




---------- Missatge reenviat ----------
> From: "Henrik Beckman" <henrik.list at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 08:32:34 +0200
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] will Nova-T 500 work?
>
> On the pre hotplug driver i was, 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T
> successfully deinitialized and disconnected' and then after a while you got
> an oops.
>
> On the newer hotplug drivers you get an write failed for mt2060 error
> message, I don´t have the exact message at hand right now.
>
> The newer driver as said has hotplug and requier a restart of
> mythtv-backend, I think this disconnect soon will be handled by the
>   backend and only be a few seconds long gap in the recording.
>
> There is work being done but since the error seems to be connected to the
> USB layer rather than the DVB layer i is hard to track down. The linux-dvb
> mailinglist has more information about the problem and what improvments that
> have been done, it seems like it is more or less stable on tmessagehe latest
> kernel if you don´t use EIT.
>
> If anyone could spare time to snoop the usb traffic while using the card
> in windows let the DVB list know.
>
> For me the card is stable but I don´t use EIT, can´t realy remeber last
> time a recording failed.
>
> /Henrik
>
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