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Problem with mantis drivers for Terratec Cinergy C and CAM

linux-dvb Clemens Sutor 4 participants 8 messages Sep 6, 2008 – Sep 14, 2008 1 message not in the archive Media (V4L/DVB)

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Hello @all!

I have a Terratec Cinergy C with CI under Ubuntu 8.04 running vdr 1.6. I use the newest mantis drivers from the mercury repository (83e2af36efe7).

<http://www.jusst.de/hg/mantis/rev/83e2af36efe7>With all free channels everything is running fine but if I insert my CAM into the CI when running vdr, the CAM init fails and even free programs are not viewable anymore.

The dmesg shows:

[   86.389545] dvb_ca adapter 0: CAM tried to send a buffer larger than the link buffer size (49158 > 128)!
[   86.491022] dvb_ca adapter 0: CAM tried to send a buffer larger than the ecount size!
[   86.491027] dvb_ca adapter 0: DVB CAM link initialisation failed :(

Any ideas or fixes for this problem?

Will be a verbose log of the mantis module more helpfull?

Bye
Clemens

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Hello Clemens.

Quoted 5 lines · On Sunday 07 September 2008 01:51:43 Clemens Sutor wrote:
[   86.389545] dvb_ca adapter 0: CAM tried to send a buffer larger than the
link buffer size (49158 > 128)!
[   86.491022] dvb_ca adapter 0: CAM tried to send a buffer larger than the
ecount size!
[   86.491027] dvb_ca adapter 0: DVB CAM link initialisation failed :(

This sounds very familiar. Due the fact that the dvb_ca_50221.c implementation is the same in the mantis tree, you could be suffering from the same problem I had. Just to be sure before I send you a patch to try: does it happen more or less randomly or right after vdr is up and running? Could you please provide some more informations about your system?

Thanks and have a nice sunday,
matthias.

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Quoted 1 line · On Sunday 14 September 2008 19:34:02 Clemens Sutor wrote:

first, thanks for the reply. I hope you can help me.

You're welcome, but unfortunately you are suffering from a totally different problem. I searched around a bit and found some "old" threads from June 08 with related problems... but no solution. :(

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there is no working CI/CAM support for the Mantis 2033/2040 chipset cards. You are telling me the opposite now. Did I get something wrong?

No, actually I did not. :-) All I said is I had a brief look over the mantis tree and spotted several known areas which area cicam related. From what I had seen, I thought everything was already in place and concluded that you might be suffering from a similar problem like I did for several month because everything looked very familiar. But it seems like the cicam support is rather new and still not quite ready.

I am sorry I cannot be of more help but I don't have a Mantis based card here nor have I any experience with the Mantis tree. :-( Maybe someone else...?

Hope you get this fixed sooner rather than later... :-(

So long,
mathtias.

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No, actually I did not. :-) All I said is I had a brief look over the mantis tree and spotted several known areas which area cicam related. From what I had seen, I thought everything was already in place and concluded that you might be suffering from a similar problem like I did for several month because everything looked very familiar. But it seems like the cicam support is rather new and still not quite ready.

Yes, for the 2033 it is not working yet!.
And as said several times on this list, I'm waiting for it for a long time already.
I wonder why Manu does not finish it. There are several people here waiting for CiCam support.

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No, actually I did not. :-) All I said is I had a brief look over the mantis tree and spotted several known areas which area cicam related. From what I had seen, I thought everything was already in place and concluded that you might be suffering from a similar problem like I did for several month because everything looked very familiar. But it seems like the cicam support is rather new and still not quite ready.

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Yes, for the 2033 it is not working yet!.
And as said several times on this list, I'm waiting for it for a long time already.
I wonder why Manu does not finish it. There are several people here waiting for CiCam support.

It's not something that i am purposefully delaying it. I am also almost at wits end. It is indeed a silly bug now, as almost everything is done for the "basic CI-CAM" support on the Mantis. The vendor is also helping out, by taking a look at the issue, but as said sometimes silly bugs are hard to find.

Regards,
Manu

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It's not something that i am purposefully delaying it. I am also almost at wits end. It is indeed a silly bug now, as almost everything is done for the "basic CI-CAM" support on the Mantis. The vendor is also helping out, by taking a look at the issue, but as said sometimes silly bugs are hard to find.

Ok! Thank you, Manu.

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No, actually I did not. :-) All I said is I had a brief look over the mantis tree and spotted several known areas which area cicam related. From what I had seen, I thought everything was already in place and concluded that you might be suffering from a similar problem like I did for several month because everything looked very familiar. But it seems like the cicam support is rather new and still not quite ready.

Thank you for trying to help Matthias.

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Yes, for the 2033 it is not working yet!.
And as said several times on this list, I'm waiting for it for a long time already.
I wonder why Manu does not finish it. There are several people here waiting for CiCam support.

It's not something that i am purposefully delaying it. I am also almost at wits end. It is indeed a silly bug now, as almost everything is done for the "basic CI-CAM" support on the Mantis. The vendor is also helping out, by taking a look at the issue, but as said sometimes silly bugs are hard to find.

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Regards,
Manu

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Hi Manu,

thanks for the info about the status in develeopment, it's the first answer I was able to get from "official" sources :)

Can you give us some updates if you get feedback from the vendor please?

Is there something I can do to support you in finding the problem?

Bye
Clemens

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Hi Clemens,

Quoted 6 lines · Clemens Sutor

Hi Manu,

thanks for the info about the status in develeopment, it's the first answer I was able to get from "official" sources :)

Can you give us some updates if you get feedback from the vendor please?

Of course.

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Is there something I can do to support you in finding the problem?

The key to the bug lies here:

http://jusst.de/hg/mantis/rev/83e2af36efe7

Regards,
Manu

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