On vr, 2007-07-27 at 17:52 +0200, Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote:
> Peter Valdemar Mørch swp5jhu02-at-sneakemail.com |Lists| wrote:
> > I'm seeing similar behavior. Changing channels causes a freeze so it 
> > needs a push on the reset button.
> 
> I have just today discovered, that if I boot the machine with "nosmp" as 
> a kernel parameter to disable SMP, it does changes channels just fine.
> 
> I was inspired to try this based on this troubleshooting tip:
> http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting#IVTV_may_cause_hangs_when_run_on_an_Intel_processor_with_Hyperthreading_enabled.

Good to see people using the troubleshooting page and it being
helpfull :)

> If the other two that are also experiencing this are also on Intel Duo 
> processors and disabling SMP works for them too, I guess that goes a 
> long way to finding a root cause.

I thought (very limited Intel knowledge) the dual core intel chips also
have hyperthreading?

> At the very least, if I don't hear to the contrary, I'll modify the 
> above troubleshooting section to include info about SMP for Intel 
> processors along with hyper threading.

According to Hans this is HT only...

Greets
Sander


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