Well, I'm afraid I spoke too soon...

When watching some more recorded shows yesterday evening, I had the same
hangs on 0.3.2k too. Went back one version again, now running with j,
but that too has the 'freeze problem'...

Now I only have i, h and g left to try, but didn't manage those
yesterday as Myth was recording again.

Installing 0.3.2i now before I go to work, I'll see this evening how
that holds out.

Stanley.


On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 07:57:24PM -0500, Chris Kennedy wrote:
> 
> 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)
> > 
> > 
> > 
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