I had your exact same problem and compiling the patched source fixed
it for me. Try deleting all occurrences of ivtv*.ko in your /lib/
modules and attempt to make install again. Something like this would
do the trick:
find /lib/modules/ -name ivtv\*.ko -exec rm {} \;
- Rick
On Dec 4, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Lazymain69 wrote:
> Hans,
>
> I downloaded, compiled, and installed that source. However, I am
> still
> getting very high CPU usage.
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 2858 mythtv 15 0 233m 80m 23m R 49.3 16.1 1:03.97
> mythfrontend
> 2282 root 18 0 252m 12m 7924 S 4.3 2.6 0:04.50
> mythbackend
> 352 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 1.3 0.0 0:01.83 ivtv-enc
> 354 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 1.3 0.0 0:01.73 ivtv-dec
> 1258 root 15 0 0 0 0 R 1.0 0.0 0:18.97 lirc_dev
> 2195 mysql 18 0 159m 21m 3932 S 0.7 4.2 0:03.04 mysqld
>
> As you can see, mythfrontend uses nearly 50% CPU. If I bring the
> guide
> up, the CPU usage goes down to roughly 3%. This has been brought
> up on
> the mythtv list, but they claim this to be an ivtv issue. I am using
> the latest .20 of mythtv.
>
> Peter
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> You need this source:
>>
>> http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/ivtv/branches/0.8.tar.gz?view=tar
>>
>> That fixes the busy wait loop.
>>
>> Hans
>>
>> On Monday 04 December 2006 23:59, lazymain69 wrote:
>>
>>> Hans,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help. The impression I got from your last email
>>> was that the attached tar was the updated source. I downloaded and
>>> compiled the source from this list and still have the same problem.
>>> Although, I could be mistaken and that source may not include your
>>> fix. I will attempt to get the source from there and try that out.
>>> Thanks again for your help.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> On Monday 04 December 2006 17:17, lazymain69 wrote:
>>>
>>> I am getting this same problem. My system was working fine before,
>>> but I had to reload after a system crash and have been having this
>>> problem ever since. I tried the attached ivtv, but this still did
>>> NOT solve my problem. I am using Kernel version 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6,
>>> Fedora Core 6.
>>>
>>>
>>> The bug is already found and fixed in subversion. You can either get
>>> it from there (the 0.8 branch) or wait till the weekend when I'll
>>> release new versions. This bug is serious enough to warrant that
>>> effort.
>>>
>>> Hans
>>>
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