Try this with the version that works, run pcitweak, first do this... pcitweak -l that will list the devices, use the pci id of the card your output is on.
Then run this... pcitweak -w (PCI_ID) 0x40 0xffff Let me know what the results of that test are, it's really the only diff between version k to l. The results will be interesting because that increases the pci transfer timeout, which fixes DMA errors. So if that's causing a timeout in Myth, would be interesting, and at the same time fixing DMA errors for the chip. Before the chip would give up on xfers a little early, which was dangerous to the pci xfers and could lock up the pci bus. Some motherboards show this very frequently, some rarely, hence our mixed results in the past. So an interesting thing to see, I'm finding wonderful results here decoding and encoding, using the OSD, computer would lock up very frequently before the change, now it hasn't since. Is there possibly debugging which someone can do in Myth to point to exactly were things are hanging in the frontend waiting for the driver, so I can have more details on where to fix this if a driver bug, otherwise hard to have anything to work with. Thanks, Chris On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 01:14:28PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm one of "the other people on the Myth mailing lists" that also has > this problem ;-) > > I have managed to narrow it down to changes done from version k to > version l. Version 0.3.2k is working fine, tried a large number of skips > forward/backward without a single freeze. > version 0.3.2l does freeze maybe 3 or 4 out of ten skips, which seems > less than version 0.3.2m/n/o/p, but not quite sure about that... > > I'm also prepared to try any patch you throw at me ;-) > > Hope this helps... > > Regards, > Stanley. > > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 03:29:58PM -0800, Louie Ilievski wrote: > > On Saturday 02 April 2005 08:59 am, Chris Kennedy wrote: > > > This should be fixed in 0.3.2p now, try that to see if it really fixes > > > it for you too. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Chris > > > > > > > Chris, > > > > I've tried 0.3.2.p and q, and both have fixed my DMA errors, which was very > > exciting. However, these drivers cause another playback issue, in MythTV > > at > > least. I'm running CVS Myth and when playing videos back, when I skip > > commercials or perform some kind of jump, about 80%-90% of the time it'll > > jump to the new point, but freeze. Sometimes I can just press pause and > > then > > play again and it'll continue, but most of the time it becomes unresponsive > > and I need to SSH into the box and restart the frontend. I noticed a > > couple > > other people on the Myth mailing lists had this problem too. So, for now, > > I > > need to stick with something older (running 0.3.2f right now, which plays > > back properly, but still gives some DMA errors). > > > > So, it seems something in the new changes is doing this, but I'm not sure > > if > > it's the DMA code or what. Also, note that there is not a single error > > message that pops up in dmesg or anything else when the video does freeze. > > > > I'm running a PVR-350 with framebuffer on an Intel mobo. (forgot to mention > > that) > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel -- --- Chris Kennedy / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineer KMOS-TV/KTBG-FM Broadcasting Services Department Central Missouri State University ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
