I see. The documentation somehow made me think I needed both... Adding the above paragraph from your answer to the README might be helpful.
Agreed. I'll add it.
You description is very vague: what crashes - the kernel or the av7110 driver? What makes you believe it's the av7110 driver? Do these crashes with your last 2.4 installation, too? Did you use "dvb-kernel" or "DVB" with that one?
Questions... ;-)
Sure. Answers:
I use VDR 1.2.6. VDR keeps going fine (OSD etc.), but picture/sound is lost and cannot be recovered until I reboot (I have dvb-kernel compiled statically into the kernel as this is a box supposed to be used exclusively as a VDR).
I have not checked the most recent version of dvb-kernel with 2.6.0. My previous version was from CVS about 1-2 weeks ago. There are no suspicious messages in /var/log/messages.
You shouldn't use the patches from "patches-2.6" then. The firmware was removed, so it's not possible to compile the driver statically into the kernel any more, as long as you don't have the right firmware-hotplug-loading stuff at hand.
Use the "makelinks" version instead. Yesterday I added the option again. You need to download the firmware from the webpage, then select
"Device drivers" => "Multimedia Devices"
=> "DVB devices" => "Compile av7110 firmware into the driver"
and then select the path to your firmware file.
I'd be happy to help in this issue is someone tells me what to do/where to look.
I'm not the av7110/firmware expert here, but: under what circumstances picture/sound get lost? Live-TV, playback of recordings? Right after the start, after 2 hours?
Does this happen with 2.4 and "DVB", too?
It might be worth asking on the vdr mailing list, too.
Lars
CU Michael.
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