Freecom DVB-T channel scan crashes kaffeine

Jan Henrik Sylvester me at janh.de
Fri Feb 1 07:14:42 PST 2008


I hope I am on the right list for this issue. Otherwise, please, 
redirect me.

Having found http://raaf.atspace.org/dvbusb/ , I managed to buy one of 
these Freecom 25451-rev.3 DVB-T sticks (USB ID 14aa:0225). All went fine 
until I did the channel scan in Kaffeine, which crashed Kaffeine.

I am on FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 with kaffeine-0.8.6 and all ports up to date. Is 
the driver supposed to work on that setup? Does anyone have it 
successfully running?

With source set to AUTO, Kaffeine crashes in the middle of the scan 
after unsuccessfully (?) scanning some frequencies. With source set to 
de-Hamburg, it crashes immediately.

Before Kaffeine crashes, it reports:
   ioctl DMX_SET_FILTER failed: Device busy
   Reading SDT: pid=17

The diagnostic dvbusb driver reports:
   dvbusb_usb_get_packets: Warning discarded 72 unknown bytes
   pid 8941 (kaffeine), uid 1001: exited on signal 10 (core dumped)
Or:
   dvbusb_usb_get_packets: Warning discarded 180 unknown bytes
   discontinuity for pid: 17 expected: 2 got: 8
   pid 8966 (kaffeine), uid 1001: exited on signal 10 (core dumped)

Below are more complete messages from Kaffeine and dmesg.

Any ideas? I am doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Jan Henrik


********** dmesg **********

dvbusb0: <vendor 0x14aa product 0x0225, class 255/255, rev 2.00/0.00, 
addr 2> on uhub3
dvbusb0: vendor 0x14aa product 0x0225, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2
dvbusb0: WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (Typhoon/Freecom) (cold)
dvbusb0: recommended firmware: dvb-usb-wt220u-fc03.fw

dvbusb0: <Digital TV Receiver Digital TV Receiver, class 0/0, rev 
2.00/5.21, addr 2> on uhub3
dvbusb0: Digital TV Receiver Digital TV Receiver, rev 2.00/5.21, addr 2
dvbusb0: WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (Typhoon/Freecom)
uhid0: <Digital TV Receiver Digital TV Receiver, class 0/0, rev 
2.00/5.21, addr 2> on uhub3

********** dmesg diagnostic driver **********

dvbusb_usb_get_packets: Warning discarded 72 unknown bytes
pid 8941 (kaffeine), uid 1001: exited on signal 10 (core dumped)
dvbusb_usb_get_packets: Warning discarded 180 unknown bytes
discontinuity for pid: 17 expected: 2 got: 8
pid 8966 (kaffeine), uid 1001: exited on signal 10 (core dumped)

********** dmesg debug driver **********

discontinuity for pid: 17 expected: 0 got: 6
pid 9121 (kaffeine), uid 1001: exited on signal 10 (core dumped)

********** kaffeine de-Hamburg channel scan **********

Using DVB device 0:0 "WideView USB DVB-T"
tuning DVB-T to 205500000 Hz
inv:2 bw:1 fecH:3 fecL:9 mod:1 tm:1 gi:2 hier:0
....... LOCKED.
Transponders: 1/13
ioctl DMX_SET_FILTER failed: Device busy
Reading SDT: pid=17

********** kaffeine AUTO channel scan **********

Using DVB device 0:0 "WideView USB DVB-T"
tuning DVB-T to 522000000 Hz
inv:2 bw:0 fecH:9 fecL:9 mod:6 tm:2 gi:4 hier:4
..................................................

Not able to lock to the signal on the given frequency
Frontend closed
dvbsi: Cant tune DVB
Using DVB device 0:0 "WideView USB DVB-T"
tuning DVB-T to 530000000 Hz
inv:2 bw:0 fecH:9 fecL:9 mod:6 tm:2 gi:4 hier:4
........... LOCKED.
Transponders: 17/63

Invalid section length or timeout: pid=17

Frontend closed
Using DVB device 0:0 "WideView USB DVB-T"
tuning DVB-T to 538000000 Hz
inv:2 bw:0 fecH:9 fecL:9 mod:6 tm:2 gi:4 hier:4
..................................................

Not able to lock to the signal on the given frequency
Frontend closed
dvbsi: Cant tune DVB
Using DVB device 0:0 "WideView USB DVB-T"
tuning DVB-T to 546000000 Hz
inv:2 bw:0 fecH:9 fecL:9 mod:6 tm:2 gi:4 hier:4
..... LOCKED.
Transponders: 19/63
Reading SDT: pid=17



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