DM 500C scanning problem

  • Please provide some information about the hard- and software used.


    Box type: DM500C
    GUI (enigma1/enigma2):enigma2
    Firmware version:1.09


    I had installed gemini 3.20 and everything working perfectly and updated to 3.30.


    Since then I have lost the ability to get any signal.


    I tried also official 1.09 but still when I scan for channels the signal stays around 69%. Even if i disconnect the cable from the box, the signal still stays at 69%. So it seems that the box thinks there is no cable connected.


    All updates that I did were by putting in /tmp the image file and renaming it to root.cramfs.


    I did Factory Reset after every reset.


    I unplugged the box, unplugged the cable from the plug but still I get nothing.


    Any ideas on what I have to change so that the tuner works again?


    Maybe 3.30 wasn't correct and now the box seems to think that it is 500S and not 500C, that's why it doesn't detect the tuner?
    Just throwing ideas here trying to figure out what has gone wrong...

    Einmal editiert, zuletzt von murdof ()

  • One thing I noticed now was that SNR stays between 65-69% with or without cable.


    One difference though is if i discconect the cable AGC goes up to 99% while with cable connected it is around 43%.

  • Reflashed official 1.09 with dreamup via serial but still have same problem.


    Any ideas?


    I'm supplying also my dmesg:


    Linux version 2.6.9 (ghost@Client) (gcc version 3.4.4) #1 Thu Nov 3 12:12:52 CET 2005
    On node 0 totalpages: 8192
    DMA zone: 8192 pages, LIFO batch:2
    Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
    HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
    Built 1 zonelists
    Kernel command line: console=null root=/dev/mtdblock5 rootfstype=squashfs ro
    PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 4096 bytes)
    Console: colour dummy device 80x25
    Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
    Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
    Memory: 30080k available (1688k kernel code, 576k data, 80k init, 0k highmem)
    Calibrating delay loop... 250.88 BogoMIPS (lpj=125440)
    Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
    NET: Registered protocol family 16
    Squashfs 2.2-r2 (released 2005/09/08) (C) 2002-2005 Phillip Lougher
    devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
    devfs: boot_options: 0x1
    JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (C) 2001-2003 Red Hat, Inc.
    Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 7 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
    ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 20) is a 16550A
    ttyS1 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 21) is a 16550A
    ttyS2 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 22) is a 16550A
    loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
    ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
    Last modified Nov 1, 2000 by Paul Gortmaker
    NE*000 ethercard probe at 0xc3060600:<4>eth0: interrupt from stopped card
    00 09 34 1f dd 81
    eth0: NE2000 found at 0xc3060600, using IRQ 25.
    Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.5 (C)1999-2002 Maxim Krasnyansky
    Using deadline io scheduler
    dreambox: flash mapping: 800000 at 7f800000
    DreamBOX rev3+: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
    Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x0031
    Using buffer write method
    cfi_cmdset_0001: Erase suspend on write enabled
    0: offset=0x0,size=0x20000,blocks=64
    disable flash VPP
    Creating 7 MTD partitions on "DreamBOX rev3+":
    0x00000000-0x00600000 : "DreamBOX cramfs+squashfs"
    0x00600000-0x007c0000 : "DreamBOX jffs2"
    0x007c0000-0x00800000 : "DreamBOX OpenBIOS"
    0x00000000-0x007c0000 : "DreamBOX (w/o bootloader)"
    0x00000000-0x00800000 : "DreamBOX (w/ bootloader)"
    0x00120000-0x00600000 : "DreamBOX SquashedFS"
    0x00000000-0x00120000 : "DreamBOX Cramfs"
    mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
    i2c /dev entries driver
    IBM IIC driver v2.1
    ibm-iic0: using standard (100 kHz) mode
    NET: Registered protocol family 2
    IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
    TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 4096)
    NET: Registered protocol family 1
    NET: Registered protocol family 17
    VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
    Mounted devfs on /dev
    Freeing unused kernel memory: 80k init
    Warning: unable to open an initial console.
    head: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
    framebuffer mem base: a0900000
    0/0: 00004000 81f00000
    0/1: 00000000 00000000
    1/0: 20003000 80f00000
    1/1: 00000000 00000000
    trying to memset ..
    ok.
    fb_find_mode returned 0
    allocated major 251 for denc.
    [DENC] set PAL
    [DENC] disable WSS
    [DENC] disable WSS
    [DENC] disable WSS
    core: Loaded IBM STB02xx core driver
    audio init
    AUDIO_CLEAR_BUFFER
    demux: init
    xp0_clk_stop
    stb04_pig: $Id: stb04_pig.c,v 1.14 2006/05/31 18:23:01 ghost Exp $
    registering frontend...
    tda: init complete
    [DENC] set mode to FBAS
    set event: 00000049
    [DENC] set mode to FBAS
    [DENC] set PAL
    [DENC] set mode to FBAS
    [DENC] set PAL
    [DENC] set WSS 4:3
    [DENC] set PAL

  • and while scanning i get this in dmesg:


    tda: snr=18.2dB
    waiting for lock
    waiting for lock
    waiting for lock
    waiting for lock
    lock timeout
    tda: snr=18.1dB
    tda: snr=18.2dB
    tda: snr=18.1dB
    tda: snr=18.3dB
    tda: snr=18.1dB
    tda: snr=18.1dB
    tda: snr=18.1dB


    is there a chance that the tuner got stuck and doesn't switch frequencies?
    It has happen on my Pinnacle TV tuner card on PC that's why I'm asking...

  • Have you checked out that 'LNB IN' conntact on the backpanel gives power to the LNB ? I have the same problem only my DM 500s shows around 50 % +/- signalstrenght with or without connection to antenna. I connected a sat finder to 'LNB IN' and the meter didn't give any light at all - but my four other receivers do give light when i use this method. This could mean that there is no power out to the LNB and that the tuner is broken.