Hans,
Thanks. I will have to put this on hold for now and just go with the 250's
until I have the time and money to figure this out. I might have to splurge
for a low-end 2850 to experiment with.
As for the current problem, yes it appears to hang before the driver is
loaded, but it didn't used to. I did something either by creating the
device nodes by hand, or by loading files directly into the hotplug or
something, while following instructions in the ivtv driver source "doc"
directory (various READMEs), and following instructions in the
ivtvdriver.org "howto". After trying some of these more refined steps, it
stopped booting cleanly.
I did not change the BIOS, and I'm pretty sure the only kernel changes were
related to the ivtv steps.
Any last minute advice on the problem with not booting cleanly?
Otherwise, thanks again and hopefully I'll have more info for you later on.
Thanks,
Rich
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> Starting udev: [OK]
> Initializing hardware... storage network audio
>
> It pauses for 30 seconds or so, and then the status light goes amber.
So this is before the ivtv driver is even loaded? If you remove the ivtv
driver and then restart the computer, does it still have problems
booting? In that case it certainly is not related to the ivtv driver
and you might look at BIOS and kernel updates.
>
> Can you tell me what it's doing with the card that early in the boot
> that I might have messed up?
Assuming that the hang is during the card initialization in the ivtv
driver, my guess is that it is either a hardware issue or something to
do with the PCI/DMA setup. But in that case I'd expect problems with
the PVR250 also.
> > The ultimate test for these kinds of problems is always testing it
> > under Windows.
>
> Yes, unfortunately that would be a challenge for me too though. I am
> just about to deploy this server and don't have the budget for a
> second experimental one at this time.
Can't you swap out harddisks? And put Windows on the new disk?
I really first need proof that it works under Windows before I'm going
to spend time on this. And the first step would be to put printk's in
the driver (ivtv-driver.c) and see where it breaks down. Also note that
I expect to have little time for this anyway in the next two weeks.
Hans
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