Actually, I just found my answer tonight. I needed to modify my kernel boot settings to allocate more memory for the kernel; it was indeed a configuration issue that the error was indicating. It looks like 192 megs does ok. I modified /boot/grub/menu.lst to add vmalloc=192m to the line that starts with "kernel", as described in:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=181857 And now I'm happily able to see TV. Btw it also turns out I was wrong about the tuner card model; it was a Hauppauge PVR-250. Thanks anyhow! - Daiji D T wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a bit of a noob to ivtv, admittedly, and was following the instructions > on: > > http://hyams.webhop.net/mythtv/myth_ubuntu.html > > for setting up MythTV (and was currently in the setup of IVTV) when I ran > into the following error > during the modprobe from my dmesg. > [17213040.272000] modprobe: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0 > [17213040.272000] [<c0144a7e>] __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x2e0 > [17213040.272000] [<c0147df0>] kmem_getpages+0x30/0x90 > [17213040.272000] [<c0148bbc>] cache_grow+0x16c/0x1f0 > [17213040.272000] [<c0148e5a>] cache_alloc_refill+0x21a/0x260 > [17213040.272000] [<c014916a>] __kmalloc+0x7a/0x90 > [17213040.272000] [<e04eabdb>] ivtv_init_buffer+0x3b/0x180 [ivtv] > > Does anyone have any hints or suggestions as to fixes or diagnostics that I > can perform? I did a > bit of looking on the list but hadn't seen anything related to this yet, > unfortunately. > > I am running: > - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper) with the latest update for Linux kernel > 2.6.15-27-386 > - a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR card that a coworker gave to me; he told me it's a > PVR-150 (I didn't see > any labels on the card itself that I could use to confirm this). > - a PowerSpec 1406 upgraded with 1GB RAM and extra HD space; it uses a Intel® > Celeron® D Processor > 346 (3.06GHz) internally on a MSI P4M800CE motherboard that uses a bunch of > VIA chips; I can look > up the specifics if that's relevant? > > I wasn't sure if this error was indicative of a bug or a config error. Does > anyone have any > suggestions? > > Thanks very much in advance, > > - Daiji > > Here is the full log: > > [17213038.912000] Linux video capture interface: v1.00 > [17213038.916000] ivtv: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted. > [17213038.916000] ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV > ==================== > [17213038.916000] ivtv: version 0.4.7 (tagged release) loading > [17213038.916000] ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.15-27-386 preempt 486 gcc-4.0 > [17213038.916000] ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info > between > [17213038.920000] ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with[17213038.920000] > ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. > [17213038.920000] ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card (cx23416 based) > [17213038.920000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) > -> IRQ 193 > [17213038.920000] ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was > 32) > [17213038.960000] tveeprom: ivtv version > [17213038.960000] tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 32032, rev = B326, serial# = > 7108836 > [17213038.960000] tveeprom: tuner = Temic 4036FY5 (idx = 26, type = 8) > [17213038.960000] tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = > 0x00001000) > [17213038.960000] tveeprom: audio processor = MSP4448 (type = 1b) > [17213038.960000] tveeprom: decoder processor = SAA7115 (type = 13) > [17213038.960000] ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] > [17213038.980000] tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c > driver #0 > [17213038.980000] ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), > addr=61] > [17213039.136000] saa7115 1-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > [17213039.256000] ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21] > [17213039.292000] msp3400 1-0040: chip=MSP4448G-A2 +nicam +simple +simpler > +radio mode=simpler > [17213039.292000] msp3400 1-0040: msp34xxg daemon started > [17213039.312000] ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP4448G-A2, > addr=40] > [17213040.028000] ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) > [17213040.244000] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 > [17213040.244000] ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 > buffers (4096KB total) > [17213040.272000] modprobe: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0 > [17213040.272000] [<c0144a7e>] __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x2e0 > [17213040.272000] [<c0147df0>] kmem_getpages+0x30/0x90 > [17213040.272000] [<c0148bbc>] cache_grow+0x16c/0x1f0 > [17213040.272000] [<c0148e5a>] cache_alloc_refill+0x21a/0x260 > [17213040.272000] [<c014916a>] __kmalloc+0x7a/0x90 > [17213040.272000] [<e04eabdb>] ivtv_init_buffer+0x3b/0x180 [ivtv] > [17213040.272000] [<e04ead73>] ivtv_init_queue_nolock+0x53/0x90 [ivtv] > [17213040.272000] [<e04eade7>] ivtv_init_queues_nolock+0x37/0x60 [ivtv] > [17213040.272000] [<e04ec497>] ivtv_stream_alloc+0xc7/0x290 [ivtv] > [17213040.272000] [<e04f3d63>] ivtv_streams_setup+0x163/0x1d0 [ivtv] > [17213040.272000] [<e04ee654>] ivtv_probe+0x7c4/0xfd0 [ivtv] > [17213040.272000] [<c02962dc>] netlink_broadcast+0x22c/0x3c0 > [17213040.272000] [<c01e6ea5>] pci_match_device+0x15/0x110 > [17213040.272000] [<c01e6ffc>] __pci_device_probe+0x3c/0x60 > [17213040.272000] [<c01e703f>] pci_device_probe+0x1f/0x40 > [17213040.272000] [<c024457b>] driver_probe_device+0x3b/0xc0 > [17213040.272000] [<c0244670>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x40 > [17213040.272000] [<c02446ab>] __driver_attach+0x3b/0x40 > [17213040.272000] [<c0243c58>] bus_for_each_dev+0x48/0x80 > [17213040.272000] [<c02446c5>] driver_attach+0x15/0x20 > [17213040.272000] [<c0244670>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x40 > [17213040.272000] [<c02440f9>] bus_add_driver+0x69/0xc0 > [17213040.276000] [<c01e728a>] __pci_register_driver+0x6a/0xa0 > [17213040.276000] [<e04ef3f5>] module_start+0x85/0xf0 [ivtv] > [17213040.276000] [<c013820f>] sys_init_module+0x9f/0x1d0 > [17213040.276000] [<c0102feb>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x79 > [17213040.276000] Mem-info: > [17213040.276000] DMA per-cpu: > [17213040.276000] cpu 0 hot: low 0, high 0, batch 1 used:0 > [17213040.276000] cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 0, batch 1 used:0 > [17213040.276000] DMA32 per-cpu: empty > [17213040.276000] Normal per-cpu: > [17213040.276000] cpu 0 hot: low 0, high 186, batch 31 used:184 > [17213040.276000] cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 62, batch 15 used:49 > [17213040.276000] HighMem per-cpu: empty > [17213040.276000] Free pages: 54864kB (0kB HighMem) > [17213040.276000] Active:71888 inactive:28546 dirty:486 writeback:0 > unstable:0 free:13716 > slab:10576 mapped:51367 pagetables:454 > [17213040.276000] DMA free:2960kB min:88kB low:44kB high:88kB active:2256kB > inactive:3864kB > present:16384kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no > [17213040.276000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 486 486 > [17213040.276000] DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB > inactive:0kB present:0kB > pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no > [17213040.276000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 486 486 > [17213040.276000] Normal free:51904kB min:2776kB low:1388kB high:2776kB > active:285296kB > inactive:110320kB present:498624kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? > no[17213040.276000] > lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 > [17213040.276000] HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:32kB high:64kB active:0kB > inactive:0kB > present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no > [17213040.276000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 > [17213040.276000] DMA: 460*4kB 108*8kB 12*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB > 0*512kB 0*1024kB > 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2960kB > [17213040.276000] DMA32: empty > [17213040.276000] Normal: 7976*4kB 1636*8kB 238*16kB 93*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB > 0*256kB 0*512kB > 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 51904kB > [17213040.276000] HighMem: empty > [17213040.276000] Swap cache: add 5570, delete 5243, find 543/648, race 0+0 > [17213040.276000] Free swap = 1461068kB > [17213040.276000] Total swap = 1477940kB > [17213040.276000] Free swap: 1461068kB > [17213040.280000] 128752 pages of RAM > [17213040.280000] 0 pages of HIGHMEM > [17213040.280000] 2101 reserved pages > [17213040.280000] 80735 pages shared > [17213040.280000] 327 pages swap cached > [17213040.280000] 486 pages dirty > [17213040.280000] 0 pages writeback > [17213040.280000] 51367 pages mapped > [17213040.280000] 10567 pages slab > [17213040.280000] 454 pages pagetables > [17213040.280000] ivtv0 warning: No memory on buffer alloc! > [17213040.280000] ivtv0 warning: Buffer alloc failed! > [17213040.280000] ivtv0: Couldn't allocate buffers for encoder MPEG stream > [17213040.280000] ivtv0: Error -12 setting up streams > [17213040.288000] ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization > [17213040.288000] ivtv: probe of 0000:00:09.0 failed with error -12 > [17213040.288000] ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV > ==================== > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? 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