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<refentry id="FE_READ_STATUS">
  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>ioctl FE_READ_STATUS</refentrytitle>
    &manvol;
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>FE_READ_STATUS</refname>
    <refpurpose>Returns status information about the front-end. This call only
 requires read-only access to the device</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <funcsynopsis>
      <funcprototype>
	<funcdef>int <function>ioctl</function></funcdef>
	<paramdef>int <parameter>fd</parameter></paramdef>
	<paramdef>int <parameter>request</parameter></paramdef>
	<paramdef>&fe-status; *<parameter>argp</parameter></paramdef>
      </funcprototype>
    </funcsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Arguments</title>
        <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
	<term><parameter>fd</parameter></term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>&fd;</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
	<term><parameter>request</parameter></term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>FE_READ_STATUS</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
	<term><parameter>argp</parameter></term>
	<listitem>
	    <para>pointer to &fe-status;</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para>All DVB frontend devices support the
<constant>FE_READ_STATUS</constant> ioctl. It is used to check about the
locking status of the frontend after being tuned. The ioctl takes a
pointer to a 16-bits number where the status will be written.
&return-value-dvb;.
</para>
</refsect1>

<section id="fe-status-t">
<title>enum fe_status</title>

<para>The enum fe_status is used to indicate the current state
    and/or state changes of the frontend hardware.</para>

<table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="fe-status">
    <title>enum fe_status</title>
    <tgroup cols="2">
	&cs-def;
	<thead>
	<row>
	    <entry>ID</entry>
	    <entry>Description</entry>
	</row>
	</thead>
	<tbody valign="top">
	<row>
	    <entry align="char">FE_HAS_SIGNAL</entry>
	    <entry align="char">The frontend has found something above the noise level</entry>
	</row><row>
	    <entry align="char">FE_HAS_CARRIER</entry>
	    <entry align="char">The frontend has found a DVB signal</entry>
	</row><row>
	    <entry align="char">FE_HAS_VITERBI</entry>
	    <entry align="char">The frontend FEC inner coding (Viterbi, LDPC or other inner code) is stable</entry>
	</row><row>
	    <entry align="char">FE_HAS_SYNC</entry>
	    <entry align="char">Synchronization bytes was found</entry>
	</row><row>
	    <entry align="char">FE_HAS_LOCK</entry>
	    <entry align="char">The DVB were locked and everything is working</entry>
	</row><row>
	    <entry align="char">FE_TIMEDOUT</entry>
	    <entry align="char">no lock within the last about 2 seconds</entry>
	</row><row>
	    <entry align="char">FE_REINIT</entry>
	    <entry align="char">The frontend was reinitialized, application is
	    recommended to reset DiSEqC, tone and parameters</entry>
	</row>
        </tbody>
    </tgroup>
</table>
</section>
</refentry>