Whoh. .. Are you me? I'm sure I typed this a while back. Now, let me read rest of your post to make sure. I always wondered what I did while I slept :) j/k
Ok, didn't notice if you mentioned it but I'm assuming you are running on a low-endish computer. Possible an old dell dimension? I had 2 big problems. First off, every once in a while usually when the MPEG stream got interrupted the adaptor would blow up. Video out stops and the syslogs are flooded with crap. This turned out to be faulty hardware. After a couple of false starts with Hauppauge they were happy (?) enough to cross ship the card. Second, was the freezing problem EXACTLY how you described it. Except that if I waited to long sometimes I could flood ping it back into reality. Took a few minutes but better than a hard lock. My fix for this was... DISABLE DMA on the hard drive. That's right DISABLE.I did that and everything was smooooth and perfect. Apparently on my motherboard the bus controller(?) was setting up a DMA deadlock situation or something. It hit me in the middle of the night. DEADLOCK ... therefore eliminate one of the parties. The DMA on the PVR was impossible to remove so I killed it on the HD. I went from .2% usage to 20% usage but that's ok. It's still responsive. In fact I burnt a DVD while watching live TV with only a couple of stutters. I've got a 120G hd in the mail scheduled to be here tomorrow. I hope I can make it work. I hope I wasn't too incoherent. My brain is currently trying to figure out the easiest way to clone my hard drive to another 20g ( not identical geometry :( ) to backup my 4 months of hard work. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maverick Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 6:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ivtv-devel] Lockup / System freeze w/ new PVR-350 Hello, Hope I'm on the right list for this... I'm trying to debug a problem with new PVR-350's. Both a friend of mine and I bought them, built similar (but not same) boxes, and have debian (KnoppMyth), and in my case, I'm now on Kernel 2.6.10 + ivtv 0.3.2d. I've tried both 0.2latest and 0.3 ivtv versions, every firmware version I could get ahold of, every trick I can think of to no avail, so I figured it was time to ask the pros. Our problem is, no matter what ivtv driver we try, or what config options, etc, the boxes lock up spontaneously. The only "temporary" resolution we've been able to make work is to run X (mythfrontend) on a monitor, but still use ivtv to record/playback TV. So, it makes us assume that the lockup/pause/freeze issue has to do with ivtv_fb more than anything else. I've also experienced issues where it will unfreeze after about 10 seconds, only to freeze moments later. Another way to make it lock up is actually playback a recording, and either wait about 2-15 minutes, or ff/rew a couple times. Does the same thing, and if I'm not mistaken, that doesn't even use ivtv_fb... Another oddity is, if I'm SSH'd into the box, sitting at the shell, I can hit enter right after it freezes to unlock it. If I wait too long though, the whole box seems to lock up and my SSH will drop. Can't reconnect, can't anything, have to power cycle. Obviously, this situation makes it rather impossible to use the boxes on just a TV alone. Is anyone familiar with this issue, and or know a way to fix it? I thought maybe it has something to do with IRQ/DMA stuff, and I saw another post asking about that, but no conclusive answers. :( Is it possiable the bus is being flooded with too much I/O? We also thought maybe it has some weirdness w/ the kernel's framebuffer and ivtv's framebuffer conflicting somehow, I even tried compiling my kernel without the console framebuffer, but that just seemed to break everything. Lastly, upgrading from ivtv 0.2 latest to 0.3.2d, now the tuner tunes nothing but static, but I'm way less worried about that since it locks up so much. Here's my dmesg stuff if it helps: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.3.2 (d) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.10-20050210 SMP preempt 386 gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:01:08.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1f.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1f.5 ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x7124 vendor: 0x8086 tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 48132, rev = K268, serial# = 2913978 tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47) tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x00001000) tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3440 (type = 11) ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok] ivtv: Tuner Type 47, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio: yes, Model 0x00ad2598, Rev ision 0x00000001 ivtv: NTSC tuner detected ivtv: Radio detected tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42 saa7115: writing init values ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok] saa7115: status: (1E) 0x48, (1F) 0xc0 saa7127: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones saa7127: video encoder driver version V 0.3 loaded saa7127: detecting saa7127 client on address 0x88 saa7127: Selecting NTSC video Standard saa7127: Selecting S-Video+Composite saa7127: Turn WSS off saa7127: Widescreen Mode 4:3 Full Format saa7127: Selecting Normal Encoder Input saa7127: Enable Video Output ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7127[0],ok] msp34xx: ivtv version msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3448W-A2, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, simpler (G) no-thread mode msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Feb 12 2005 00:28:45 ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3448W-A2,ok] ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011 ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023 ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 350 card with 10 streams ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers 4194304 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0 ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32 ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers 2097152 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224 ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers 2097152 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24 ivtv: Create stream 4 ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 64 ivtv: Create DMA stream 5 using 16 65536 byte buffers 1048576 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 5 minor 16 ivtv: Create stream 6 using 1024 2048 byte buffers 262144 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 6 minor 228 ivtv: Create stream 7 ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 7 minor 232 ivtv: Create DMA stream 8 using 6 103680 byte buffers 622080 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 8 minor 48 ivtv: Create DMA stream 9 using 32 65536 byte buffers 2097152 kbytes total ivtv: Setting Tuner 47 tuner: type set to 47 (NoTuner) by ivtv i2c driver #0 saa7115: decoder set input (4) saa7115: now setting Composite input ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1 ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC. ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 2027, itv = 0xd0b0c2a0 ivtv: ivtv_dec_thread: pid = 2028, itv = 0xd0b0c2a0 saa7115: decoder set norm NTSC saa7115: set audio: 0x01 saa7127: Setting Encoder Video Standard saa7127: Set NTSC Video Mode saa7127: Selecting NTSC video Standard ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv-osd: Framebuffer module loaded (attached to ivtv card id 0) ivtv-osd: Framebuffer is at decoder-relative address 0x00510000 and has 1704960 bytes. ivtv-osd: screen coords: [0 0] -> [720 480] ivtv-osd: original global alpha = 208 ivtv-osd: current OSD state = 39 ivtv-osd: new global alpha = 208 (1 255 0) ivtv-osd: framebuffer at 0xf9510000, mapped to 0xd1990000, size 1350k ivtv-osd: mode is 720x480x32, linelength=2880 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 90x30 ivtv-osd: fb0: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device saa7115: decoder disable output saa7115: decoder set input (0) saa7115: now setting Composite input ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 1, output 1 saa7115: decoder enable output saa7115: decoder set size NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c03195e0(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61 lirc_i2c: Unknown parameter `lirc_dev' bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR) ivtv: i2c attach [client=Hauppauge IR,ok] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 10 saa7115: decoder disable output saa7115: decoder set input (4) saa7115: now setting Composite input ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1 saa7115: decoder enable output saa7115: decoder set picture bright=128 contrast=63 saturation=64 hue=0 saa7115: decoder set picture bright=128 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 saa7115: decoder disable output saa7115: decoder enable output apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be tr ying access hardware directly. atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be tr ying access hardware directly. saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 saa7115: decoder disable output saa7115: decoder enable output saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 saa7115: decoder set size saa7115: decoder disable output saa7115: decoder enable output eth0: no IPv6 routers present ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. 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