[ubuntu-za] Video Broadcast Controller

[Neil Muller]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:22:08AM +0200, Russell Cloran wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Robert Holm <robhholm at lantic.net> wrote:
> >> > I don't want to give up on this too easily. Does anyone have any idea
> >> > what determines rc5 and rc4, or what the letters "rc" even stand for, so
> >> > that I can delve a little deeper?
> 
> I've always thought it stood for "resource configuration". Wikipedia
> disagrees, though.

In this case, though, it's part of an error message from the driver, so
it's probably being used to mean "return code".

Returning to the problem which sparked the side-thread.

Given the error message, it look like the automatic detection of the
tuner type is selecting the wrong tuner. Detecting the tuner correctly
is one of the hard problems (largely due to hardware manufacturers not
providing reliable methods for detecting hardware changes (this also
makes searching for relevant information hard)). The gentoo wiki lists a
couple of scripts for trying to loop through all possible tuner types,
see http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/SAA7134 - while tedious, this is
probably the best bet at this point.

-- 
Neil Muller  email: neil at dip.sun.ac.za 

Division Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Stellenbosch