----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Serban" <[email protected]>
> On 03/21/11 19:56, Dan Serban wrote: > > Is there a patch against any current kernel release? > > > > I'll start there, but I do have a lot of time invested in gathering > > possible information on this, my backend has been unusable since > > November due to this bug. I've tried many different things to alleviate the > > issue, though I feel that maybe I'm overlooking something simple. Like a > > bug in the IVTV driver. > > > > Let me know if that's the case :). > > Is this a bug with IVTV? Do I have too many PCI devices? Is IO a > bottleneck and possibly causing one of the PVR150's to hang? > > What can I look at to resolve my problem? Possibly. Did you report your kernel and IVTV versions; I don't recall seeing them? I do have this message in my own logs: > *********************** WARNING *********************** > ivtv drivers prior to 0.10.0 can cause lockups when > reading VBI. Drivers between 0.10.5 and 1.0.3+ do not > properly capture VBI data on PVR-250 and PVR-350 cards. though I don't know if it's going to be related to your problem or not, or whether you in fact see it. That machine has kernel: > Linux plaintain 2.6.34.7-0.3-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-09-20 15:27:38 +0200 > i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux and ivtvctl 0.10.5, though the driver version seems to be > ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.1. We don't see lockups (anymore, since I replaced the motherboard), but we do get two flavors of stuttering, one which also stutters the audio, and one which doesn't. I suspect bus mastering problems or XFS problems, but haven't been able to pin it down yet. Cheers, -- jra _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
