[mythtv-users] PCI-E Capture Card for Australia

[R. G. Newbury]

On 26/06/14 06:38 AM, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> On 6/26/14, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 26 June 2014 08:40, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I do not know, offhand, the date of the modules at home, and I cannot
>>> remember when I last updated it... iirc, it is running Fedora 17, while
>>> everything else is on F20... maybe time for an upgrade.
>>
>> I had a dvico digital4 DVB-T card giving me similar symptoms.
>> After a reboot it would often stop working.
>> You had to completely power off the PC to make it work again.
>>
>
> Yep, been there, got the t-shirt, sunhat, glasses and stubby-holder.
> I picked up the practice of cold-booting on every kernel update
> (somewhere back in 2007 I think) and it's been required ever since.
> The thing always works that way. usbid of my one is:
>
> 0fe9:db78 DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital 4 (ZL10353+xc2028/xc3028)
>
>> I rarely shut down the backend, but power failure did happen.
>> Now I've plugged it on a 1700VA UPS, it hasn't been off in over 5 months
>
> For added chuckles, somewhere between 3.8 and 3.11 linux lost its
> ability to load the firmware for the card and the linux-media head
> still doesn't work with it.
> I raised this on linux-media but nobody cared.
>
> Jean-Yves, if we have the same hardware, it might be interesting to
> compare dmesg outputs.

Much more interesting would be to compare the modules/firmware which 
each loads. In my case, the firmware gets loaded properly by each 
module, but it is the udev/module loading sequence which goes wrong.

Geoff



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              R. Geoffrey Newbury