[mythtv-users] DVB-S : no lock

[John Drescher]

> Ah, maybe important:
>
> I run media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p20877 on a gentoo box here.
> Kernel version 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 right now.
>
> I had also tried 2.6.28 yesterday, without a difference.
>
> The reason was that 2.6.30 gives me this in "dmesg":
>
> IRQ 21/cx88[1]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
>
> my googling lead to some postings saying "broken since 2.6.29", so I
> tested 2.6.28. That msg was gone, yes, but the tuning/locking wasn't
> better on adapter0.
>

One other option is to disable the in kernel driver and to use the
v4l-dvb-hg driver available in portage. I do this so that my kernel
choice does not tie me to an older driver. The v4l-dvb-hg driver is
guaranteed to be the newest driver. I do not have your card however.

John