On 2003-01-28 at 21:55:25 +0100, Gunther Mayer <Gunther.Mayer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> ras2 wrote:
> >It's been mentioned here before; if you reboot (or boot Windows and
> >then boot to Linux), bttv usually doesn't find the tuner. It only
> >works if you boot to Linux after a power-off. It's a tad annoying.
> >Windows doesn't have a problem with reboots, so I don't think it's
> >a problem with the mt2032 chip as such.,
>
> Try attached patch and report if the warmboot problem is fixed or not ?
It looks like it. I just tried three warm boots and it found the tuner
every time (this is with bttv.o from 0.9.4, but that probably doesn't
matter).
It also got rather lively all of a sudden:
[boot]
Jan 29 01:06:08 vampire kernel: tda9887: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter
[id=0x10005]
Jan 29 01:06:08 vampire kernel: tda9887: chip found @ 0x86
Jan 29 01:06:08 vampire kernel: bttv0: i2c attach [client=tda9887,ok]
Jan 29 01:06:08 vampire kernel: tda9887_miro: switch on mt2032 tuner via OP2.
Jan 29 01:06:08 vampire kernel: tda9885/6/7: 0xd0 0x6e 0x09 [pinnacle_id=1]
[...]
[starting XF86 (must be when it reaches 'Load "v4l"' in the X config)]
Jan 29 01:06:41 vampire kernel: tda9885/6/7: 0xd0 0x6e 0x09 [pinnacle_id=1]
[starting xawtv]
Jan 29 01:07:29 vampire kernel: tda9885/6/7: 0xd0 0x6e 0x09 [pinnacle_id=1]
Jan 29 01:07:46 vampire last message repeated 30 times
[changing the channel]
Jan 29 01:11:43 vampire kernel: tda9885/6/7: 0xd0 0x6e 0x09 [pinnacle_id=1]
Jan 29 01:11:44 vampire last message repeated 5 times
[changing the channel]
Jan 29 01:13:18 vampire last message repeated 6 times
Jan 29 01:14:37 vampire last message repeated 86 times
Jan 29 01:14:50 vampire last message repeated 18 times
Jan 29 01:16:36 vampire last message repeated 42 times
Jan 29 01:16:42 vampire last message repeated 12 times
[etc.]
> Probably Windows switches off MT2032 (which gets hot)
Surprisingly so (I actually wondered if I would have to install a case
fan because of it, but it doesn't seem so, so far).
> and Linux only enables it when it starts tuning.
> But then it's too late!
Does that mean that it's turned on all the time now?
-R.
