Hauppauge Nova-T 500 disconnects

[Eamonn Sullivan]

My Nova-T 500 (a dual-tuner DVB-T card popular in the U.K. and maybe elsewhere in Europe) is experiencing multiple disconnects a day in Mythbuntu 8.04 beta. This wasn't happening with the previous version. Others are experiencing the same thing, from what I can see on the Linux-dvb mailing list. The following patch to the kernel has been reported to work:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git;a=commit;h=5475187c2752adcc6d789592b5f68c81c39e5a81

Apparently, it was a regression introduced last August that is now fixed. Any chance of getting this patch in the kernel used by mythbuntu?

[Eamonn Sullivan (eamonn-sullivan)]

This bug seems to related to this one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/204857

Where the developers have decided to hold off applying this patch until after Hardy. May I plead here as well for a reconsideration? Without this fix, hardy is basically useless as a MythTV platform for many USB-related tuners.

[Simeon Walker (simbloke)]

The patch is extremely simple and really should be applied, otherwise many people will have to re-compile their kernels to get their USB tuners working. Check the linux-dvb list to see the astonishing amount of time already spent by many people due to this bug.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Simeon Walker wrote:
> The patch is extremely simple and really should be applied, otherwise
> many people will have to re-compile their kernels to get their USB
> tuners working. Check the linux-dvb list to see the astonishing amount
> of time already spent by many people due to this bug.
>
I might recommend you guys bring this patch up for discussion on the Ubuntu
kernel mailing list. If nothing else, perhaps this patch can be included in
linux-backport-modules if it is too late to be added to the kernel.

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Mario Limonciello
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[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2008-March/002245.html