Hauppauge Nova-T-500; losing one tuner. Regression?

2011-01-23 Thread Alex Butcher
Hi - I've recently built an upgraded MythTV system. My old system was running Fedora 8 (with kernel 2.6.26.6-49), MythTV 0.21-fixes, and used a single-tuner PCI Nova-T and a dual tuner PCI Nova-T-500 for a total of three physical tuners. I've re-used the tuner cards in my upgraded system, which

Re: Hauppauge Nova-T-500; losing one tuner. Regression?

2011-01-23 Thread Devin Heitmueller
Hi Alex, As a refresher, the drivers in the 2.6.26.6-49 kernel didn't yet include support for the new I2C functions only supported by dib0700 firmware revisions = 1.20.  I don't think this is relevant to the Nova-T-500, though, as only s5h1411_frontend_attach() and lgdt3305_frontend_attach()

Re: Hauppauge Nova-T-500; losing one tuner. Regression?

2011-01-23 Thread Malcolm Priestley
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 11:58 +, Alex Butcher wrote: 11) I briefly experimented with setting buggy_sfn_workaround=1 when loading the dib3000mc and dib7000p modules with no apparent improvement. As far as I can see, though, UK DVB-T broadcasting isn't a single frequency network, so a)

Re: Hauppauge Nova-T-500; losing one tuner. Regression?

2011-01-23 Thread Alex Butcher
Hi Devin - [A confession; after my last post, I double-checked my MythTV config, and I found that I had EIT scanning enabled on one of the tuners on the Nova-T-500. This was the same configuration that used to work, so it shouldn't have made any difference, but I've disabled EIT on both of the

Re: Hauppauge Nova-T-500; losing one tuner. Regression?

2011-01-23 Thread Alex Butcher
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Malcolm Priestley wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 11:58 +, Alex Butcher wrote: 11) I briefly experimented with setting buggy_sfn_workaround=1 when loading the dib3000mc and dib7000p modules with no apparent improvement. As far as I can see, though, UK DVB-T broadcasting

Re: Hauppauge Nova-T-500; losing one tuner. Regression?

2011-01-23 Thread Alex Butcher
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Alex Butcher wrote: Can anyone offer any tips for regaining reliability? Failing that, is there any further logging I can enable, and entries to look out for? Exactly what errors are you seeing? I2c write errors in dmesg? No, nothing in the kernel logs, which is what I

Re: Hauppauge Nova-T-500; losing one tuner. Regression?

2011-01-23 Thread Malcolm Priestley
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 21:01 +, Alex Butcher wrote: On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Malcolm Priestley wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 11:58 +, Alex Butcher wrote: 11) I briefly experimented with setting buggy_sfn_workaround=1 when loading the dib3000mc and dib7000p modules with no apparent