Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

[Luca Olivetti]

et wrote:

would be nice to know more about your lockups, since I don't get lockups. what

easy, I used to use a program called vcr that captures from the tv card and compresses to divx on the fly. Works (or better, used to work, it doesn't with recent avifile versions) with 8.2 kernel, immediate lockup with 9.0 kernel.
Something similar happened with ffmpeg.
A couple other programs dealing with tv capture and processing have the same symptoms.
One captures audio and video and "processes" them on the fly (sorry, I can't be more specific), so it needs full duplex audio. With 8.2 kernel it works fine with alsa (in fact that's the recommended driver), with 9.0 it doesn't work at all with alsa, it does with oss but it will lock hard the machine after a while.
Tried a kernel rpm from SGI (all my filesystems are xfs) and had the same problems. The kernel rpm from SGI also was compiled with gcc3.
With great pain I tried to recompile the 9.0 kernel srpm with gcc-2.96.
I don't remember if I was successful in compiling it or not. I think I was, it solved this problem but it created others, so I stuck with 8.2 kernel.

sound chips and what video card and drivers are you using? when you say "almost fine" what sort of problems do you have with 8.2 still? what does

No, I don't really have problems with 8.2 kernel unless I'm using nvidia drivers, but that's not really a Mandrake or SGI fault. BTW, all the tests with 9.0 kernel have been made with the open source nv driver, just to keep the nvidia binary module out of the picture.

"lspcidrake" say and what does "cat /proc/pci" say

It's pretty common hardware:

$ lspcidrake
unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]
unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super]
unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo]
usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB
usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB
unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
via82cxxx_audio : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio]
ohci1394 : VIA Technologies|OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
bttv : Brooktree Corporation|Bt878
btaudio : Brooktree Corporation|Bt878
8139too : Realtek|RTL-8139
Card:NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic): nVidia Corporation|NV11 (Geforce2 MX)
unknown : Virtual|Hub []
unknown : Virtual|Hub []

$ cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 3).
Master Capable. Latency=8.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xdbffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (rev 0).
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 64).
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6).
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd00f].
Bus 0, device 7, function 2:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 22).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd400 [0xd41f].
Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#2) (rev 22).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f].
Bus 0, device 7, function 4:
Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 64).
IRQ 9.
Bus 0, device 7, function 5:
Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 80).
IRQ 5.
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdcff].
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe003].
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe403].
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 67).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Max Lat=32.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde000000 [0xde0007ff].
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe87f].
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 2).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=40.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde001000 [0xde001fff].
Bus 0, device 12, function 1:
Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 2).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde002000 [0xde002fff].
Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 16).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xec00 [0xecff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde003000 [0xde0030ff].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (GeForce2 MX) (rev 161).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc000000 [0xdcffffff].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd7ffffff].


Bye


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