It doesn't sound like X crashing then so it's probably an ivtv problem. All I can sugest is increasing the debug levels to see if anything obvious shows up as being a consistent cause of things. Is anything else happening at the same time as the hang (recording, playing video, etc.)?
John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duncan Webb > Sent: 17 January 2006 07:00 > To: Discussion list for development of the IVTV driver > Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv-0.4.2 broken xdriver > > John Harvey wrote: > > >If X is crashing there should be something in the X log file > >(/var/log/Xorg....) > >Can you send a copy of that. > > > > > I have checked the xorg logs and there were no errors except of course > (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) > (EE) IVTVDEV_TST(0)Framebuffer id from dev /dev/fb1is 1 > (EE) IVTVDEV_TST(0)open /dev/video48 returned 8 > (EE) IVTVDEV_TST(0)get_fb returned 0 fbid 1 > > dmesg showed nothing either. > > best would be a core dump... > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duncan Webb > >>Sent: 16 January 2006 21:09 > >>To: Discussion list for development of the IVTV driver > >>Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv-0.4.2 broken xdriver > >> > >>John Harvey wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>What crashes? > >>>X or the ivtv driver. > >>>I'm assuming it's X that is crashing. If so can you get a stack trace > >>> > >>> > >>from > >> > >> > >>>the crash. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Hard to tell, but X would be my guess as the keyboard is dead. > >> > >>Not sure how to enable core dumps. > >> > >> > >> > >>>Is this a 32bit or 64bit system? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>64 bit > >> > >>Sorry not much help is it > >> > >> > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>-----Original Message----- > >>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel- > >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duncan Webb > >>>>Sent: 16 January 2006 19:26 > >>>>To: Discussion list for development of the IVTV driver > >>>>Subject: [ivtv-devel] ivtv-0.4.2 broken xdriver > >>>> > >>>>Been testing the xdriver with ivtv-0.4.2 over the last few days. It > >>>>seems that either the xdriver or the ivtv frame buffer are not stable. > >>>>Both xdriver-0.10.6 and the svn version 3146 crash from time to time > >>>>causing X to completely lock up. This seems to happen when the whole > >>>>screen is being updated, such as when a new freevo menu screen is > being > >>>>displayed. > >>>> > >>>>Replacing the ivtv driver with 0.4.0 and the system is then stable. > >>>> > >>>>Regards, > >>>>Duncan > >>>> > >>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>ivtv-devel mailing list > >>>>[email protected] > >>>>http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>ivtv-devel mailing list > >>>[email protected] > >>>http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>ivtv-devel mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel > >> > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >ivtv-devel mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
