On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Thursday 18 August 2005 02:40, Chase Douglas wrote: > > I've been trying to get the pvr-500 to work in my mythtv backend and, > > unfortunately, whenever I try to use the card, it reboots after a few > > seconds. I have seen where some people have suggested that it is a hardware > > issue. I am using the 0.3.7 drivers configured as shown in the QuickStart > > file, excepting a few params for the cx and wm modules which are no longer > > present. Everything looks good in the log when I modprobe ivtv. Does anyone > > know how to fix this? If it's a hardware problem, where should I start to > > try to figure this out? > > I came across a NULL pointer bug in the driver yesterday (see also the kernel > OOPS mail that just came in on the list). I wonder if this is the same > problem that's bugging you. The patch against 0.3.7f (driver/ivtv-fileops.c) > is attached. I'm curious if this fixes the problem. > > If not, then see if there are some error messages in your kernel log file > (/var/log/kernel.log or something similar).
Just as a reminder, there are long-time DMA issues under certain VIA chipsets that seem more likely to occur when using some tv cards during high I/O (network or disk) situations. I'd search the archives for "via" and "bios". -brendan ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
