Re: [ivtv-devel] [ivtv-users] The ivtv DMA error

2006-08-28 Thread John Drescher
I've finally managed to reproduce the DMA error reliably and quickly using the following shell script on my dual AMD: #!/bin/sh cd /sys/devices/system/cpu echo userspace cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor echo userspace cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor while true; do \ echo 220

Re: [ivtv-devel] DMA Errors

2006-10-20 Thread John Drescher
Turn off cool and quiet or any power management you may have running. JohnOn 10/19/06, Todd Foggoa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi Folks,I seem to be plagued with these DMA errors almost every time I try to record something now. These errors are happening on the latest ivtvdriver 0.7.1The errors look

Re: [ivtv-devel] DMA Errors

2006-10-20 Thread John Drescher
On 10/20/06, Todd Foggoa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, Thanks for your reply. I have done this test in the past andfor completeness I did it again now. I disabled cool n' quiet in thebios and disabled cpu frequency scaling in the linux kernel. I ran mytest as I described in my original post.

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv lists

2006-12-02 Thread John Drescher
On 12/2/06, Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:35:41PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: I'm looking for a maintainer for the ivtv lists. It involves regularily checking the held back messages and decide to discard them (spam) or forward them to the list or notify the

[ivtv-devel] ivtv-lists / old held posts

2006-12-05 Thread John Drescher
Hi everyone, I have volunteered to be the list admin for the ivtv-users and ivtv-devel lists which basically means if an email is held because you are not subscribed I have to accept the email, reject it or discard it. When I first looked at the lists I inherited there were around 30 old emails

Re: [ivtv-devel] noise in the background of the audiostream PVR-150

2007-07-25 Thread John Drescher
I am sorry that this message got through my screening process as it is huge. I quickly examined the contents and it looked on topic so I approved but then I saw that there was a huge attachment and I could not take back the approval... BTW, if anyone wants to post a large attachment please use a

Re: [ivtv-devel] [patch] Fix DMA TIMEOUT lockups (for me at least, for the last 26 hours)

2007-07-28 Thread John Drescher
It appears the 128K buffer can not allocate at least in my 64 bit kernel but the 64K buffer allocates fine and when I then limit my transfers to 64K. I get lots of warnings and video artifacts: Ok, setting the buffer size to 0x1F000 and limiting transfers to 0x1F000 seems to work for me. I am

Re: [ivtv-devel] Cardbus Card VISTA

2008-02-22 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:16 PM, H G Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested in buying the Notebook Cardbus Hybrid TV/FM tuner from http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SAA7135cm_mmc=geekmail-_-daily_html-_-21feb08_ORANGE-_-ORANGEproduct and would like to know from your group if

Re: [ivtv-devel] Question: PVR-150/500 power usage

2008-12-18 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Rune Petersen r...@megahurts.dk wrote: Hi, I know this is a little off topic, but... =) Does anyone have an idea as to how much power a PVR-150 or an PVR-500 draws from the PCI bus? I have a pet project with tight power requirements. Less than 10W. I can

[ivtv-devel] List moderator going on vacation.

2009-11-12 Thread John Drescher
Hi all, I will be on vacation to Cozumel Mexico from this Friday evening till some the 23rd of November. I may check in 1 or 2 evenings but I will be limited in the time I can spend on this since I probably will have to pay $0.10 or more per minute at the resort for internet access (well at

[ivtv-devel] Mail server still having problems.

2009-12-31 Thread John Drescher
Axel, The mailing list still is experiencing a problem. Specifically it is holding messages because of too many recipients. Today I have had to push a few through for Hans Verkuil and Andy Walls that both had less than 10 recipients. Thanks, John M. Drescher

Re: [ivtv-devel] viewcvs and trac broken

2010-02-07 Thread John Drescher
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Martin Dauskardt martin.dauska...@gmx.de wrote: http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/ Not Found The requested URL /viewcvs/ was not found on this server. http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/ Trac Error TracError: The Trac Environment needs to be upgraded. Run trac-admin

Re: [ivtv-devel] viewcvs and trac broken

2010-02-07 Thread John Drescher
I believe the reason why these are not working is that the source no longer is in subversion. It is in Mercurial here: http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/ Hi John, Actually, the ivtv-utils and the xdriver are not at linuxtv.org mercurial trees. Thanks and sorry for the misinformation. John

Re: [ivtv-devel] How to upgrade IVTV on 2.6.34/Suse 11.3?

2010-10-01 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Jay R. Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Just hard-upgraded the sis's Mythbox to SuSE 11.3 (2.6.34) and Myth .23.1 And, of course, because I didn't do my homework, I'm getting the  *** WARNING ***  ivtv drivers prior to

Re: [ivtv-devel] UNKNOWN IVTV CARD

2011-08-01 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:18 PM, John D. Gorman, Jr. johndgorm...@msn.com wrote: To whom it may concern, The moderator never got back to me. ae129251abd29b72caa4d64d4b3f491f38385785 I reluctantly pushed the 73 KB message through. Most of the time I tell a user to trim the message

[ivtv-devel] Pondering if it is worth moderating these lists any more..

2012-04-25 Thread John Drescher
Hi all, As list moderator for several years now it seems that now I rarely have to push a valid message through however I still need to zap 3 to 10 SPAM messages from each list every single day. Although I am still happy to do this I am pondering if I should not check as much any more. Normally I

Re: [ivtv-devel] [ivtv-users] Pondering if it is worth moderating these lists any more..

2012-04-25 Thread John Drescher
I sent a message offlist to John already, basically saying I'm still 100% PVR-x50 because I record from cable boxes in SD. I use my pvr-x50 cards along with my 2 free comcast DTA boxes to record SD. I most likely will continue to do that until I get one of those new cable card tuners and have

[ivtv-devel] Fwd: Allowing to post to mailing list

2014-06-10 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dmitry Kalichkin k565...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:59 AM Subject: Allowing to post to mailing list To: ivtv-devel-ow...@ivtvdriver.org Hello, I have an unknown CX18 card and I've want to send a report about it, but got a message You are