Channel/Scan timeout

Hi there,

firstly, I apologise if I have posted this in the wrong place. I don't know if it is a Debian/Ubuntu, VDR or driver issue.
Secondly, I tried searching the forums, but my German is a little rusty. High school was a long time ago.

I've had success with a VDR/XBMC setup in the past, on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, even if the whole setup was a little fragile. I have tried both the TechnoTrend S-3200 and the KNC One TV-Station (Mystique SaTiX-SE) (separately), with an Irdeto CAM, using the CI on each board. And then something happened. I am not sure if it was a kernel update, a VDR update (I was using yaVDR's testing PPA) or something else, but I have been unable to get VDR to tune to a channel, or even perform a successful channel scan. (I'm in South Africa, and tune into Intelsat 7/10 S68.5E).

I have since updated my pc to:

Linux 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:02:55 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

and nothing has changed - I still can't tune to a channel from within VDR, or perform a channel scan. However, szap, Kaffeine and Me-TV are all able to scan and tune to channels without any issues.

The output to syslog from Wirbelscan:

"Aug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: Running on VDR 1.7.18 (with internal Plugin support. :-))
Aug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: wirbelscan version 0.0.7-pre01
Aug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: No DVB-S2 device available - trying fallback to DVB-S
Aug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: device 0 = ST STV0299 DVB-SAug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: good
Aug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: compiled for DVB API 5.2 Aug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: using DVB API 5.2
Aug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: frontend ST STV0299 DVB-S supportsAug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: FEC_AUTO
Aug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: DVB-SAug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: :11567:vC910I0M2O35S0:S68.5E:2380:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
Aug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: is_known_initial_transponderAug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: last message repeated 2 times
Aug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: [9506] receiver on device 1 thread started (pid=9494, tid=9506)
Aug 31 10:41:27 iris vdr: [9507] TS buffer on device 1 thread started (pid=9494, tid=9507)"

The error when trying to tune to a channel:

Aug 31 11:51:22 iris vdr: [9499] frontend 0/0 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 212722

I have a universal LNB, and no DiSEqC switch (I have fiddled with the setting out of desperation).

Any tips of suggestions on where to look to solve this?

(Strangely enough - Mythtv also fails to scan for channels).

Thanks

Thanks Maik,

looks like that might be my next option, although I was wanting to stay on Natty because of yaVDR. Still seems odd tough, Kaffeine and szap/mplayer work perfectly (including the CAM). Just can't figure out what I am missing.

femon shows that there is no channel lock when trying to lock onto a channel from within VDR, and that there is a lock when doing from szap/kaffeine etc.