On Mar 29, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Keith Pyle wrote: > >> On Tuesday 28 March 2006 21:54, Larry Symms wrote: >> >> >>> Haven't heard from Hans about this in a while. One of two things >>> occurred, he was sidetracked by more urgent issues, or the issue was >>> corrected. I'm still on 0.3.6 drivers because I haven't taken the >>> time to look into this as my problems are minor or rare. I'll be >>> upgrading soon to newest 0.4 drivers so I'll report back with my >>> results. >>> >>> >> >> I've seen this happen with older firmwares, it's been awhile that >> I've >> seen it with the latest firmware. It also sometimes happens after >> a lot >> of rmmod ivtv/modprobe ivtv. Doing rmmod ivtv/modprobe ivtv another >> time clears it up for me. >> >> And indeed, I'm working hard to get some things in the kernel in time >> for 2.6.17. Next week I'll have more time for some outstanding ivtv >> issues. >> >> Hans >> >> >> > I have this issue at 0.4.1 (svn 2816) that I reported 11/20/2005 > (ivtv-devel vol3, issue 52). It was a very common occurrence when > running with hyperthreading enabled and using a SMP kernel. Only a > reboot would clear the problem - it was not possible to rmmod ivtv. > > Hans speculated that this was a SMP related problem. I disabled HT > and > had no subsequent problems, which I reported on 12/5. I never saw any > indication of a fix being made for a SMP problem, so I'm still running > without HT. > > Keith
No one I've heard of has had trouble running SMP and ivtv on a true multi-processor machine (I do it), but there have been a couple of reports of ivtv not working with hyperthreading and SMP. Keith C _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
