Thanks Mike

Is this likely to stop the "Incorrect Readback of kernel version issue as 
well?" 

cheers

Allan 

On Mon Feb 23 17:57 , Michael Krufky  sent:

>On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:49 PM, sonof...@iinet.net.au
>sonof...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> Some of you may have read some of my posts about an "incorrect firmware 
>> readback"
>> message appearing in my dmesg, shortly after a tuner was engaged.
>>
>> I have isolated this problem, but the workaround so far has not been pretty.
>> On a hunch I removed my Dvico Fusion HDTV lite card from the system, running 
>> now
>> only with the Dvico Fusion Dual Express.
>>
>> The issue has gone, I am not getting the kdvb process hogging cpu cycles and 
>> this
>> message has stopped.
>>
>> I had tried both letting the kernel (or is it udev) assign the major and 
>> minor
>> numbers and I had tried to manually set them via modprobe.conf (formerly
>> modules.conf, I don't know if this is a global change or specific to 
>> Gentoo)....
>>
>> I had the major number the same for both cards, with a separate minor number 
>> for
>> each of the three tuners, this seems to be the same.
>>
>> Is this how I should be setting up for 2 cards or should I be using some 
>> other
>> type of configuration.
>
>Allan,
>
>I recommend to use the 'adapter_nr' module option.  You can specify
>this option in modprobe.conf -- the name of this file is
>distro-specific.
>
>For instance, to make the dual card appear before the lite card:
>
>options cx23885 adapter_nr=0,1
>options dvb-bt8xx adapter_nr=2
>
>to make the lite card appear before the dual card:
>
>options cx23885 adapter_nr=0
>options dvb-bt8xx adapter_nr=1,2
>
>I hope you find this helpful.
>
>Regards,
>
>Mike
>)


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