Mike, Would you be pushing these into 2.6.30.1?
Thanks, devsk ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mike Isely <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:16:15 PM > Subject: [pvrusb2] New driver snapshot: pvrusb2-mci-20090616 > > > A new pvrusb2 driver snapshot is available. The driver changes are: > > (+) Fix problem involving correct determination of undefined audio / > video routing. Routing tables for various chips are sparse > arrays but their "sparseness" was incorrectly set up. With this > change we can now handle detection of undefined routing setup. > > (+) Change default television frequency to US broadcast channel 3 > (previously was 7). This has zero impact on apps; it only helps > with my own testing. With the phase out of OTA analog > television in the US, the previous value became useless to me. > I have to set some kind of default here, so I might as well > choose something useful (which in this case corresponds to my > analog RF modulator). > > (+) Initialize VBI for cx25840 any time the video standard is > changed. This is because the VBI initialization code in the > cx25840 appears to use aspects of the video standard as input so > we want to make sure that this code runs any time the standard > is changed. No, this does not enable use of VBI; it is a > further refinement on the video scaling bug fix. > > (+) Fix horizontal video scaling bug involving analog capture where > a cx25840 is used. This is an old bug - previously fixed back > in Nov 2006 (video was being distorted / corrupted for > horizontal resolutions other than 720 pixels). The problem was > that the fix had been rendered ineffective by other changes. > VBI is now initialized in the cx25840 driver only after the chip > has been initialized (fixes 24xxx) and again after any time the > chip is reset (fixes HVR-1950). > > (+) Additional tweaks to HVR-1950 device configuration having to do > with I/F frequencies in the tuner (from Steve Toth). > > (+) Instantiate ir_video I2C device by default - basically change > the default value of the "disable_autoload_ir_video" option to > zero. > > This snapshot should fix the poor video quality that people have been > seeing on the HVR-1950 when in analog mode and the horizontal capture > resolution is set to something other than 720. > > There is a recently detected new problem, still unsolved, and specific > to the older 29xxx model: When switching from the FM radio to > television, the audio goes silent. The problem appeared with the V4L > sub-device changes from a few months ago. I just haven't had the time > to really dig into this one yet, and I felt it more important to get > the scaling fix out now thus today's snapshot. > > Note also the ir_video change. The driver now will attempt to bind > V4L's IR driver (ir_kbd_i2c) where appropriate (depending on the > detected capture hardware). This will conflict with lirc. If this is > a problem for you, then you'll want to override the behavior with the > disable_autoload_ir_video module option. HOWEVER that is not a > permanent solution, because there are changes coming into the kernel's > I2C subsystem that require changes in lirc and once the legacy I2C > compatibility code is removed from the kernel (probably will happen in > 2.6.31), lirc will likely break for I2C based IR receivers. Sorry, > this is outside of the pvrusb2 driver. Hopefully the lirc folks are > on top of this. > > As usual, the pvrusb2 web site can be found at: > > http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/pvrusb2.html > > -Mike > > -- > > Mike Isely > isely @ isely (dot) net > PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 > _______________________________________________ > pvrusb2 mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
