[mythtv-users] HVR4000 woes

[Liam Friel]

... Or I could just temporarily nuke that card out of myth ... which would
presumably do more or less the same thing ...

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Liam Friel <liam.friel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, as a matter of fact, if you build the vanilla v4l-dvb-20100517
> repository and install this, this breaks the TT-3200 and it won't load the
> drivers for it at all.
>
> At the time it never occurred to me to see what would happen if I just
> tried to use the HVR 4000 alone, so intent was I on getting my TT-3200 back.
>
> I could just remove the hack that allows the TT-3200 to load and that would
> disable it completely. I'd have to add my cards back into myth but it would
> be an interesting experiment.
>
> Lots to play with ...
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Mike Perkins <
> mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Liam Friel wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm. Thanks for the hint.
>>>
>>> I was considering fetching the 0.23 source and building it for debug at
>>> the
>>> weekend.
>>>
>>> What I might try first is changing the backend tuner priorities so that
>>> it
>>> will pick the HVR 4000 DVB-S tuner in preference to the TT-3200 one ...
>>> to
>>> see if this makes zapping stable in the case where there is no active
>>> DVB-S
>>> recording ...
>>>
>>>  I can't remember: have you tried building with each tuner type
>> separately and ensuring that the system worked with just one or other
>> driver?
>>
>> That would help prove that it's an interaction thing.
>>
>> Another possibility would be to try and get the drivers to load in a
>> different order, in case it's a memory corruption thing. You could end up
>> tramping on some other part of the OS, maybe, but it might isolate which one
>> is to blame.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mike Perkins
>>
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