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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>Current issue <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>The TT1600 cards both seem to timeout with lots (hundreds) of the following entry in /var/log/syslog<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>Apr 18 16:35:12 tv kernel: [81540.704512] saa7146: saa7146 (0) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for end of xfer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>If I run mplayer on the console it gives a tuning timeout message. I can open the Tevii card OK with mplayer and I can watch TV OK on the settop box, so the dish is OK.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>Rebooting or reloading the module with “rmmod budget; modprobe budget” brings the cards back into life and they can be seen again by mplayer and mythtv.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>As both TT1600’s timeout I’m ruling out a card failure, also they both spring into life when the driver module is re-loaded without a power cycle.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>As an update, the syslog had an error amongst the thousands of saa7146 error messages there was an interrupt error suggesting to use irq polling in the kernel, after a quick tweak of grub it is now keeping the cards loaded (so the kids didn’t kill me for failing to record Dr Who!).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>We’re still pixelating, but the patch needs a kernel rebuild so I’ll need to fit in some time between work and recording schedules.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Alex<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>