Jonas Meurer wrote:

>On 02/05/2005 Brian Jackson wrote:
>  
>
>>>i'm trying to use my PVR-350 with ivtv 0.3.3y on a 2.6.11 amd64 (x86_64)
>>>debian/unstable system, but unfortunately every second time i load the
>>>ivtv modules, i get a "page allocation failture". 'modprobe ivtv' output
>>>is attached as failed-modprobe-ivtv.out.
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>A little googling turned up this:
>>echo "vm.min_free_kbytes=16384" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
>>or you could buy more memory, or sometimes it helps to load ivtv earlier
>>during the boot process
>>    
>>
>
>great, so far i couldn't reproduce the kernel oups with this option set
>in /etc/sysctl.conf.
>  
>

Good to hear.

>  
>
>>All you really _should_ need is the 2 alias lines. The rest isn't needed
>>99% of the time.
>>    
>>
>
>ok, but i still need the three config lines?
>/usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -u 0xff
>/usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -p 4
>/usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480
>  
>

I don't, but if you added them to specifically fix an issue you had, you
may still need them. Try without them and see.

--Brian Jackson

>bye
> jonas
>  
>



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