I was wondering if someone could tell me the purpose of the
incremental DMA patch made to X Windows?  What kind of problems would
I see if I didn't have this patch applied (I do not have it applied).

I'm using a PVR-350.  I've been bouncing around different versions of
IVTV and for the most part, they work, but I seem to only be able to
watch about 2.5 hours of stuff before I get some sort of freeze.  I'm
getting DMA errors in the messages log and I'm trying to figure out if
I need your patch, or if there's some other configuration setting I
should change.

I've been having problems with both the 0.3.X and the 0.2.0-rc3j versions.

These are the errors I'm getting with the 0.2.0-rc3j version:

Jul  9 23:18:16 divo kernel: ivtv: DEC 2nd DMA Xfer Info
failed=0xfffffff0 46432490
Jul  9 23:18:47 divo kernel: ivtv: DEC 1st DMA Xfer Info
failed=0xfffffff0 46463275
Jul  9 23:18:47 divo kernel: ivtv: DEC 1st DMA Xfer Info
failed=0xfffffff0 46463432
Jul  9 23:18:47 divo kernel: ivtv: DEC 1st DMA Xfer Info
failed=0xfffffff0 46463452
Jul  9 23:18:47 divo kernel: ivtv: DEC 1st DMA Xfer Info
failed=0xfffffff0 46463452

I have a very minimal modprobe.conf:

alias char-major-81       videodev
alias char-major-81-0    ivtv

I do a modprobe ivtv and modprobe ivtv-fb from the boot.local file
during boot to initialize the drivers.

I'm running on a dual processor Dell.  The last version of the driver
I had that worked consistently was 0.1.10-pre2-ck114f and I don't want
to go back to that one because of all the improvements made since
then.

I'm running on SuSE 9.1 with Kernel 2.6.5-7.155.29.

Thanks for all the great work guys.  I can tell the newer drivers are
a lot cleaner and transitions are a lot smoother, so I'm really
looking forward to getting things squared away.

Thanks,

-Dave


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