Problem with CI Card

[gludie@…]

Hi,

I hope this issue is worth a ticket, but I now searched a lot for a similar problem, but did not find anything.

Symptom: If I insert a cam module (alphacrpyt light) into the CI module, mythtv hangs with Status "L_ _ ". Independently if FTA or scrambled. If I disconnect the cam, the status immediatly changed to LMS and current channel can be watched.

If I reinsert the cam module - same story as before ... hangs with status L

What did I check: ==dmesg==

2557.060154] adapter has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:24:1d:a5

[ 2557.066324] input: Budget-CI dvb ir receiver saa7146 (0) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:0a:0c.0/input/input7 [ 2557.072464] budget_ci: CI interface initialised [ 2557.196281] dvb_ca adapter 1: DVB CAM detected and initialised successfully [ 2557.276213] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)... [ 2784.312153] dvb_ca adapter 1: DVB CAM detected and initialised successfully

The card itself worked this afternoon, and I did not exactly know, if it is in relation with a change in udev. I tried to create links with a own udev rules, because I have two adapters, but at the moment I disabled it and work with the automatic assigned adapter ids.

Distribution: ubuntu 10.04 lts mythtv: 0-23-fixes cards: Hauppage Nova S PCI CI , Technisat Skystar 2 rev2.8 0a:0a.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02) 0a:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme? BCM5705_2 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) 0a:0c.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)

0a:0a.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02)

Subsystem: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] I/O ports at 4000 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: b2c2_flexcop_pci Kernel modules: b2c2-flexcop-pci

0a:0c.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)

Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH Device 100f Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 123, IRQ 20 Memory at d0020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Kernel driver in use: budget_ci dvb Kernel modules: budget-ci

Please let me know, if further information needed

[tapsa19@…]

I have exactly the same problem. When I installed the net card it worked ok with the cam. But I needed to fiddle with the udev to have card devices to have fixed names and this issue came up. When I removed the cam the L moved to LMS. My CAM is SmarDTV Conax 4.00e and I have Technotrend C1501 DVB-C PCI with Technotrend Budget PCI CI.

[stuartm]

I don't think anything has changed in this area of the code, but can you upgrade to 0.24.2 or the beta of 0.25 (released tomorrow) and see if it makes any difference.

[Kenni Lund [kenni a kelu dot dk]]

I'm closing this as an upstream bug. I've recently purchased a TechnoTrend? CT-3650 CI tuner and I ran into the same issue as described in this report. The issue existed both on 0.24-fixes and on git master. Once I moved to a recent kernel together with the latest V4L-DVB git master branch, the issue went away. I'm currently running with MythBuntu? 11.10 with its stock kernel + a recent V4L-DVB git master checkout + 0.24-fixes. I haven't had the issue with this setup.

Another thing, which gave me a great headache while I was debugging the issue, was that the tuner didn't always work as expected if I had removed and reinserted the CAM after the system had booted. If I did this, I had to reload the drivers and restart the backend (or simply just reboot the system and leave the CAM inserted at all times).