kubuntu feisty: kaffeine freezes when using dvb-t (on scan and trying to watch with imported channels.dvb)

[Sam Sulaimanov]

Binary package hint: kaffeine

I installed Kubuntu Feisty Fawn on the release day and wanted to try out DVB-T in Kaffeine. DVB-T always worked for me in Edgy, but now strangly it stopped working. If I want to scan for channels in Kaffeine, it starts to scan, but freezes at 31-32%.

So I thought, "Hey, why don't I just go scan the channels in Edgy with Kaffeine?". I did that and of course it worked fine. I then took the /home/user/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine directory (has channels.dvb in it) from Edgy and replaced Kaffeine's same directory in Feisty with it.

Now that I had a channels list, without having to scan in Feisty, I thought everything was fine. I start Kaffeine in Feisty, click on the DVB Button and I see the channels. Now if i click on a channel, Kaffeine freezes again. So Kaffeines DVB function is useless in Feisty for me.

I am using:
-Kubuntu Feisty Fawn
-Skymaster DTMU-100 DVB-T USB(with Zarlink MT352 DVB-T Drivers, always worked in edgy)

Kaffeine in console:
sam@sam-laptop:~$ kaffeine
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode: 145
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode: 145
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
0
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 : opened ( Zarlink MT352 DVB-T )
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1 : : No such file or directory
/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 : : No such file or directory
QLayout "unnamed" added to QWidget "unnamed", which already has a layout
sam@sam-laptop:~$ Tuning to: SF2 / autocount: 0
DvbCam::probe(): /dev/dvb/adapter0/ca0: : No such file or directory
Using DVB device 0:0 "Zarlink MT352 DVB-T"
tuning DVB-T to 562000000 Hz
inv:2 bw:0 fecH:9 fecL:9 mod:6 tm:2 gi:4 hier:4
... LOCKED.

My Kubuntu Hardware DB id:
17354f2b585d2b991a0b568f7b9ff750

[Johan Montelius (johan-montelius)]

Same problem but with Edgy. Kaffeine has worked without problems ans then it can not find the DVB-T card.

silver@silver:~$ kaffeine --verbose
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode: 147
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode: 147
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 : : Filen eller katalogen finns inte
QLayout "unnamed" added to QWidget "unnamed", which already has a layout

/var/log/messages looks ok

May 20 11:57:12 silver kernel: [17179589.996000] DVB: registering frontend 0 (DST DVB-T)...
May 24 06:39:45 silver kernel: [17179589.252000] bttv0: detected: Twinhan VisionPlus DVB [card=113], PCI subsystem ID is 1822:0001
May 24 06:39:45 silver kernel: [17179589.940000] bt878_probe: card id=[0x11822],[ Twinhan VisionPlus DVB ] has DVB functions.
May 24 06:39:45 silver kernel: [17179590.192000] DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0).

silver@silver:~$ kaffeine -version
Qt: 3.3.6
KDE: 3.5.5
Kaffeine Player: 0.8.2

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?

[Johan Montelius (johan-montelius)]

I have not had any problem in a long time. Cannot recall that I had problems in 7.10 and I'm since long running 8.04 without any problems. Haven't tried 8.10 yet.

[Sam Sulaimanov (sam-sam-network)]

For me it hasn't worked in any linux distribution since Kubuntu Edgy
Eft came out. I tried Fedora 9 with Kaffeine but that also gave me the
exact same error and behaviour. Was there something new or broken in
the kernel at the time after edgy came out or is it just my DVB-T
adapter? FYI my DVB-T adapter still works in Windows so I'm guessing
its not broken. The firmware available at linuxtv
(http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-usb-umt-010-02.fw)
still works in Edgy (sometimes Edgy will complain the firmware is
missing so I have to put it in place manually).
I will give 8.10 beta a try in the next few weeks.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> wrote:
> Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?
>
> ** Changed in: kaffeine (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> kubuntu feisty: kaffeine freezes when using dvb-t (on scan and trying to watch with imported channels.dvb)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109258
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[Sam Sulaimanov (sam-sam-network)]

Finally my card (same old) works with kaffeine (0.8.6) out of the box on Ubuntu and Kubuntu 8.10.

FYI Kernel is 2.6.27-11-generic

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Marking as fixed then; thanks for the feedback.