[mythtv-users] Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T-500 LNA Problems

[David Knight]

On Mon, October 19, 2009 4:36 pm, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:31 AM, David Knight
> <dlknight at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>> Could this be affecting a certain version of the board? I have been
>> running a Nova-T 500 for a couple of years on Fedora without issue. I
>> also
>> use the cubbi tuxonice kernel builds to suspend my combined fe/be
>> (unloading and loading the dib0700 driver).
>
> Well, there are a couple of different products which people sometimes
> refer to as the "Nova-T 500", including the "Nova-TD 500".  Also, it
> depends on the version of the kernel you are running, since the
> regression was introduced in relatively recent kernels.  Hence if
> you've been running the same Fedora kernel for a couple of years you
> might not have hit the issue yet if you haven't upgraded.
>
> Many people never notice because they very rarely do a warm reboot of
> their PC.
>
> Devin
>
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>

Hi Devin,

   I'm currently running Fedora 10 with the tuxonice kernel
2.6.27.24-170.2.68_1.cubbi_tuxonice.fc10.x86_6.

I do restart sometimes and haven't noticed an issue...

Output from dmesg -

dib0700: loaded with support for 7 different device-types
dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in cold state, will try
to load a firmware
firmware: requesting dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw
dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw'
dib0700: firmware started successfully.
dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in warm state.
dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software
demuxer.
DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T)
DVB: registering frontend 0 (DiBcom 3000MC/P)...
MT2060: successfully identified (IF1 = 1203)
dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software
demuxer.
DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T)
DVB: registering frontend 1 (DiBcom 3000MC/P)...
MT2060: successfully identified (IF1 = 1214)
dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T successfully initialized and
connected.
usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700

Cheers

Dave K.