Simen Thoresen wrote: > Hi Michael, Rey, > > I have not seen any new replies to this, nor anything from any developers. > As I wrote in my problem report, I've been an ivtv-user for a while, but > only recently subscribed to the list - thus I don't know what to expect from > developer interest and such. > > Still - assuming the developers are reading the list and and are interested > in the problem, I thought I'd try to summarise our systems so that we can > get similarities or differences sorted out. > > My system (as previously written) is an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, > with an Athlon64 X2 chip, running in i386 mode, with ivtv 0.7.0 on a > 2.6.17.6 kernel. > > This means > -NForce4 (I would not thing that mobo brand or chipset features matter too > much) > -SMP (This may be important. I've run my card with ivtv-0.4.x 'forever' in > UP-mode on older kernels without issues) > -kernel 2.6.17 + ivtv 0.7.0 > > > Michael; > From your mail, I understand you are running an A8V board (That would be a > ViA K8T800pro-board, right?). Are you running an X2 CPU in SMP on this? In > i386 and not x86-64 mode? > Also, you're writing that ivtv 'crashes' - are we talking about the same DMA > error; > warning: ENC: (0) DMA Error 0x0000000b > reported some or many times during a capture? > The actual error number may be important, altho I don't know what it > signifies. > > Altho my errors were a lot less frequent that I have seen others report, > they never caused ivtv to stop working, nor impaired system stability. > > > > Rey; > You write that you have the same setup as I have. Could you please expand on > that? > Did the patch work for you as well as it does for me? > > > > So - assuming Michael is experiencing the same problem I am, it would seem > that his is /not/ a chipset issue (or, if it is, both NForce4 and K8T800pro > chipsets are affected), but the common line is that it applies to Athlon64 > CPUs, possibly SMP setups. > > From my own experience from my own setup, I feel pretty confident that the > the main change I introduced was the SMP CPU. I see others have reported > this issue with other kernels and ivtv-versions, but good information is > typically missing. > > With a little spare time, I will build an UP kernel and give that a spin > with an unmodified ivtv-driver. Given that my errors never were very > frequent, testing will take time to be conclusive. > > Yours, > -S >
I have a x86_64 x2 with nforce and all the above. A kernel upgrade caused my DMA error. You need to make sure you are using V4L from the kernel and not your own or from Axel's packages. This resolved my problem. YMMV. Preet _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
