On Sunday 12 June 2005 08:46, Johan Tufberg wrote: > Simon Kenyon wrote: > >On Saturday 11 June 2005 23:34, Johan Tufberg wrote: > >>I have a myth box setup with a TechnoTrend premium DVB-S that are > >>supposed to communicate with 2 LNB:s on one dish trough a Diseqc switch > >>(1.0, 2-way). The satellites I'm trying to use are Thor and Sirius. > >> > >>I have entered the transponders and I have also been able to scan the > >>satellite on LNB1 but I can not seem to be able to get myth so select > >>LNB2. When I try to scan the second satellite I get, NO LOCK. > >> > >>If I switch the cables I get signal locked on LNB1 but still LNB2 seems > >>to be non-operating. I've read that there have been reports on this > >>listing that there may be some problems with LNB switching via Diseqc?! > >>Anyone that can shine some light upon this issue or give any direction > >>of where to search for answers... > > > >i cannot get diseqc to work either > >this is with 2.6.11 > >i've used the kernel dvb drivers and the linuxtv cvs > >i've asked questions on the linux-dvb list but have never got an answer > >from googling around it does appear that there is a bug in the diseqc > > surpport (something to do with timing calculations) in the 2.6 version of > > the drivers. but nobody seems bothered to fix it and i don't really know > > how to. > > > >unless this is all compkete rubbish and i have either a broken nexus-s or > > two broken switches. > > > >so all i'm really saying in a very long way is "me too" > > > >regard > > Hi > Simon, I'm also using 2.6.11 kernel drivers on my gentoo system. I have > compiled mythtv from source instead of getting it from an ebuild. > Anyway, I have also ompiled the linuxtv-apps from linuxtv.org. In this > bundling of test utilitys there is a scan utility useful for scanning > transponders and getting an output of channels that can be used in vdr. > > When using the scan utility I can scan both my satellites without any > problems and therefore switching between the LNB:s work. An example > "./scan -s 1 dvb-s/THor-1.0W" where the "-s 1" tells the scan utility to > use the second LNB and this works without any problems. > > So what I'm trying to say in a long way is that I do not think it is the > kernel drivers that are the issue.
i agree for me scan does not work correctly (or more likely the switch/nesus do not work correctly) i've tried two switches, so maybe it is the card in my case sorry i couldn't help regards -- simon _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
