Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP and gnuradio errors - seems to disconnect often

[Eric Blossom]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 06:40:24PM +0000, Casey Tucker wrote:
> 

> OK, I booted into Arch Linux again for some testing. This time my
> kernel was upgraded to 2.4.24.

That's certainly a "mature" kernel.

> I hooked up my USRP and ran the python scripts and walked away for
> 20 minutes. When I came back, it was still sitting there trying to
> tune an NTSC signal and failing miserably at synchronizing the video
> stream, but it did not freeze or bail out with any of the prior
> errors of the device not being found, so it could indeed be the
> Linux kernel that I was using. I'm using the SVN version of
> gnuradio, so it is >= 3.1.1 I guess. As for Windows, I haven't done
> any further testing, but am left to assume that my 3.0.2 on XP will
> continue to fail.

Casey, if you'd take a look at the first comment in usrp_tv_rcv.py you
would see that it explicitly indicates that "There is no
synchronization yet".

Free software gets written by people like you who want particular
features to work.  If you want an NTSC receiver you could help work on
it. 

> I would like to get the SVN (or at least a more recent) version to
> compile under Windows, but the Wiki articles do not indicate which
> libraries are compatible, and I think this is a real shame for those
> of us who prefer to enable non-linux-gurus to use FOSS.  Any advise
> on compiling under MSYS or Cygwin would be greatly appreciated.

If you use Ubuntu or Debian, there are binary packages for GNU Radio
available.

Eric