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Pinnacle 310i - partial success report, composite-in problem

Pierluigi 'Lanugo' Rolando wrote:

Hi,


hi pier

I followed the instructions found on the wiki (how to build from CVS).
After make install'ing the newly compiled modules I have loaded the
saa7134 module using 'card=77' as the only option and I have been able
to run a tvtime-scan to find out lots of analog channels and now I can
watch them - I still haven't tried audio, but I don't care that much
about analog audio anyways (I really just want to get the DVB part
working, plus composite input).


The analog part of this card works perfectly as described in a my previous thread.
The dvb part according to harmut doesn't works perfectly, and for me doesn't work for all :D.
The *Master* Harmut, (i want to say thanks for the explanations about this card)
say also that he's developing a new implementation for another philips reference
and that from there there are a good chances to get pinnacle 310i works perfectly.

I think I have found at least a quirk, though: if I try to connect a
composite video source to the card, using the composite-to-svideo
adapter bundled with the card, my computer freezes (hard and fast: no
response from keyboard, not even keyboard leds blinking the familiar
kernel panic signal). After that rebooting the sistem (even cold
rebooting it, or switching everything off, removing the card, going for
a 15 minutes walk and then putting everything back in order) and running
tvtime (or mplayer, or even the media center analog channel search
routine under Windows!) makes the computer freeze again.

Every single time.

In order to recover from this unfortunate condition I had to boot
Windows and run the DVB-T channel search utility from the media center
control panel. I don't know what is going on, and I am willing to help
debugging (as long as I don't have to modify the hardware in any way)
because I was counting on getting the composite input to work.



I use gentoo and composite doesn't freeze my system. I'm use 2.6.15-r1 gentoo kernel.
Good Luck...and stay tuned


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