Holger Waechtler wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > > >I would apply this, because I think it's useful, and I don't know if the > >EEPROM is writable at all (could be write-protected), and if it is > >writable you could shoot yourself in the foot by writing crap to it. > >Also there's no utility for writing the EPPROM. > > (Probably because it's too trivial for a seperate utility?;) > > Just take a look in the 24lc16 datasheet, writing to an EEPROM is as > simple as reading. > > Write protection can be disabled by simply scratching or cutting the WP > line. But is it's true that Siemens provides a calibration utility I > doubt that there is any write protection so there is probably no need to > scratch on your card... > > About broken EEPROMs: The cards will just show up with bogus > vendor/device ids, nothing really serious. You just need to add this id > the the PCI vendor/device id tables in the saa7146 driver and then you > can write the EEPROM again. Nothing to worry about if it's well documented. > > >I don't like this. IMHO the VES1820 driver should > >always printk the PWM value from EEPROM during initialization. > >AFC can be printed with Jaakko's utility. We just need a pointer > >to it and a "howto fix dvb-c tuning problems" doc. > > Both a HOWTO-use-the-Siemens-calibration-utility or an alternative > solution for Linux using e.g. a pseudo-frontend-driver should perfectly > help everybody who has the same problems like you, not?
I have no doubts it can be done somehow. But as long as this utility does not exist it would be better to have the PWM module paramter than nothing. my 2�, Johannes -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
