[mythtv-users] Recent kernels' DVB drivers now report signal strength

Preston Crow pc-mythtv07a at crowcastle.net
Fri May 11 13:35:36 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 11:27 -0400, Preston Crow wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:22 -0400, Preston Crow wrote:
> > More importantly, has this been discussed on the DVB lists?  I assume
> > that's the appropriate place, as this doesn't seem to be
> > Myth-specific.
> 
> http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-May/017722.html
> 
> So answering my own question, yes, this has been discussed on the DVB
> lists, and they seem to have found a bad patch, which has been reverted
> on May 3rd.  I don't know when the correction will make it into the
> mainline kernels.
> 
> If I'm reading the kernel change log correctly:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/214179/
>       V4L/DVB (4883): Fix TD1316 tuner for DVBC
> This went in as part of 2.6.20-rc1, so 2.6.19.7 should be the latest
> good kernel.

I can confirm that 2.6.19.7 works fine.  My DVB cards tune just fine.



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