Re: [Hampshire] TV Tuner

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] TV Tuner

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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:15:53PM -0000, Bond, Peter wrote:
> > ...Yes, I know
> > you're talking about a USB device, but it might be worth trying this
> if
> > you're still having problems.
>
> With the Asus USB device, if it is unplugged whilst the TV app is
> running, it does not unload properly and will not subsequently reload
> the firmware to the receiver (and seems to require a reboot to be happy
> again - haven't tried manually rmmodding everything yet). Shut down DVR
> first and unplug it and everything behaves happily, with fw being
> reloaded upon reinsertion.
>
> I'm assuming that there is an issue there with unloading drivers through
> hotplug whilst they're in use?


That's a general (and known) problem with the DVB implementation in
Linux, I believe. It certainly used to be a problem several years ago,
but I thought they'd done some work on fixing it. Obviously not enough
work. :)

Hugo.

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