>On Tuesday 28 March 2006 21:54, Larry Symms wrote: > > >>Haven't heard from Hans about this in a while. One of two things >>occurred, he was sidetracked by more urgent issues, or the issue was >>corrected. I'm still on 0.3.6 drivers because I haven't taken the >>time to look into this as my problems are minor or rare. I'll be >>upgrading soon to newest 0.4 drivers so I'll report back with my >>results. >> >> > >I've seen this happen with older firmwares, it's been awhile that I've >seen it with the latest firmware. It also sometimes happens after a lot >of rmmod ivtv/modprobe ivtv. Doing rmmod ivtv/modprobe ivtv another >time clears it up for me. > >And indeed, I'm working hard to get some things in the kernel in time >for 2.6.17. Next week I'll have more time for some outstanding ivtv >issues. > > Hans > > > I have this issue at 0.4.1 (svn 2816) that I reported 11/20/2005 (ivtv-devel vol3, issue 52). It was a very common occurrence when running with hyperthreading enabled and using a SMP kernel. Only a reboot would clear the problem - it was not possible to rmmod ivtv.
Hans speculated that this was a SMP related problem. I disabled HT and had no subsequent problems, which I reported on 12/5. I never saw any indication of a fix being made for a SMP problem, so I'm still running without HT. Keith _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
