On 10/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Leigh Porter</b> <<a href="mailto:leigh@leighporter.org">leigh@leighporter.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br><br>My other half has already cut my head off and shat down my neck a few<br>times...<br><br>I am also about to dump the 500.</blockquote><div><br><br>I recompiled the V4L drivers including the patch specifically designed to enhance signal quality on Nova-T devices, and it has worked a treat. My system has been rock stable for the past month and not missed a a single program and the backend has not crashed once. (Though, I've taken the backend down twice in that time to run mythtv-setup.)
<br><br>See <a href="http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500">http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500</a> and especially the bit that reads:<br>=====<br><pre>* MT1060_IF1_freq_set.diff -
2.3K<br> * Sets the MT2060 IF1 frequency according to the calibration values stored in the EEPROM. It is supposed to enhance the signal quality<br> * Olivier Danet<br> * Post: <a href="http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-December/014926.html" class="external free" title="http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-December/014926.html" rel="nofollow">
http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-December/014926.html</a></pre></div>=====<br></div><br>-James<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>James Cummings, Cummings dot James at GMail dot com