For the benefit of anyone who might have similar problems. These tricks are
mostly already mentioned on the list but others might still find them
interesting...
I have a Flyvideo3000 with 2.4.20 kernel, v4l patches, saa7134-20030326,
xawtv-20030325.
After about a week of use the video goes and I get some v4l invalid ioctl
messages when ever I change channel.
Fixed by cold reboot.
On Fixing the above - sound is often not working. Running radio -f <freq>
will give me (mono?) sound. I can't change channels because I get a message
about invalid frequency (I think it then refuses the request). loading
saa7134 always complains the autoscan fails.
Some playing around with loading and unloading fixed the problem. In
particular I *think* unloading saa7134 and then tuner and then loading
first the tuner, waiting and then loading saa7134 avoided the autoscan
failure problem and gave me a perfectly working sound/video. e.g.
modprobe tuner
*wait*
modprobe saa7134 card=2
May be a slight bug in the autoscan which blocks tuning if the "autoscan"
or what ever fails which is avoided by the above. May be just dumb luck -
but I thought it worth mentioning.
Andrew
