[mythtvnz] MythTV upgrade, bleeding code, ready for tester

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Nick Rout<nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Aaron
> Drysdale<Aaron.Drysdale at provencocadmus.com> wrote:
>>>the kernel
>>
>> There must be something else that has affected the tuner. I don't
>> believe it is caused by a faulty card (sorry, just my opinion :) This
>> suddenly started after an upgrade - it would be quite a coincidence.
>>
>> But I guess the onus is on me to figure out what is causing this. Or
>> maybe, with my wife and kids away for the school holidays next week, I
>> just bite the bullet and reinstall everything fresh onto 9.04 (shudder)
>
> The other possibility is the firmware, I recall that there was a later
> firmware at some point which gave trouble and people who went back to
> the previous firmware said it worked better. Try searching the
> mythtv-users mailing list for the card name and firmware, gossamer
> threads is the best archive.
>
> In case you are unfamiliar, the kernel driver loads the firmware at
> cold boot time (if you warm boot you can be left with the previously
> loaded firmware, you need a power off situation if you are changing
> firmware.) The firmware is produced by the manufacturer and is
> generally closed source.
>

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