SMP support seems to be the troublemaker
When running under kernel-2.4.18 compiled without
SMP support it works fine...
Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:00:04PM +0200, Sebastian Kloska wrote:
> >
> > Hmm.. but I wrote it even crashes if I disable Xv output altogether
> >
>
> Yes - but NVidia driver is very complex thing and nobody sees inside.
> So they are using their NVdriver for a lot of things.
>
> It's definitely not the responsibility of avifile that your machine
> gets into deadlock - the is most usually kernel related bug - some
> resource is being held (Assuming you have installed SMP version of
> NVdriver)
>
> You could try to compile single CPU kernel to see if the problem remains
> also you could try to run current kernel with 'cpu=1' or 'nosmp' option
> (could be passed as a kernel boot option - depends on your loader)
>
> In all cases this is for sending bugreport to nvidia developers...
>
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