What software is everyone using? There is a known problem with myth 0.18 release that causes systems to hang/crash. This happens during playback in myth when the screen is cleared after displaying menus. If people are using myth 0.18 this is the most likely cause of the problem.
John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve & Laurie Sanders > Sent: 13 November 2005 18:07 > To: Discussion list for development of the IVTV driver > Subject: RE: [ivtv-devel] ivtv framebuffer is broken with PVR350 > > Please don't apologize for the me too message, I would like to know just > how > many people are experiancing this. If it is only a few it will not likely > get much attention. I have been wondering if I should just bite the bullet > and just recompile my whole system for i386 and see if that fixes the > problem since I have more than enough raw horsepower for a mythtv system > using the hardware based decoder of the PVR350. But I really hate to go > down > that road, it seems so wasteful and besides After going through all of > that > pain I might discover that the problem still remains! > > It seems to me a much more benifical approach to the entire community at > large if I could get some debugging guidence from the developers and solve > this thing, in the SMP environment and when it gets solved it will be > better > for everyone. Because if I revert to i386 only and the problem goes away > it > does not help anybody except me. > > However if I can't get any support, then I don't know if I have many more > options. > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Smith > Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 8:16 AM > To: Discussion list for development of the IVTV driver > Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv framebuffer is broken with PVR350 > > > On 11/12/05, Steve & Laurie Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It may be specific to smp cores, I don't know how many are > > developing systems with smp processors. > > Thank you Steve for diagnosing this so thoroughly. I believe I have > had the same problem and haven't been able to move up to the latest > drivers because of it. I'm still running 0.10.114f along with the > matching frame buffer and X driver because I've never been able to get > 0.2, 0.3.x nor 0.4 to work for longer than a few hours. > > I've tried running the X driver included with .114f with the later > versions of the main driver, but initialization seems to be a problem > with that configuration. > > I am also running on an SMP and have thought the issue was probably > related to that, but I always thought it was in the core driver and > not the framebuffer or the X driver. > > Now that I think about it, I am not using the X driver for playback, > only for menus. I play directly through the PVR-350. It symptoms > still seem very similar. > > I apologize for the "me too" message, but I wanted to show that it > might be happening to others. > > Thanks, > > -Dave Smith > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
