On 9/10/07, William Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hans Verkuil wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > A lot of progress is being made these days, thanks to the various > > testers and in particular the discovery by Mark Bryars relating large > > DMA tranfers with DMA timeouts. > > > > I've reworked the DMA handling in the driver to do the scatter/gather > > inside the driver instead of relying on the DMA engine of the > > cx23415/6. So the buffers are still the same size, but it still seems > > to run smoothly. Note that the DMA of the ivtv-fb framebuffer has not > > yet been converted. It works, but DMA timeouts might still happen > > there. Although to be fair the decoder DMA engine seems to work much > > better so DMA timeouts are not really an issue here. > > > > It is bleeding edge software which has limited testing, so be careful. > > > > Nevertheless, it is a major breakthrough and I'd like people to start > > testing it is possible and report back with any problems (or success if > > previous problems are now solved). > > > > For the ivtv-0.10.x series you can get the updated driver here: > > > > http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/ivtv/branches/0.10.tar.gz?view=tar > I was the original author of the thread: "Periodic Lockups With IVTV > Versions > 0.4.x" My problem was hard lockups caused by crashes at the > start of recordings that only occured very occasionally - typically 3 - > 10 days. I've been running the 0.10.6 developmental snapshot version > reference in the parent and I've just reached an uptime of 50 days, with > several hundred recordings over that interval. I'm being very cautious > given that I never was able to duplicate the problem on demand, but I'm > beginning to believe the problem is solved in this version. > > Thank, Hans! > > :-) > > Bill > > I am attempting to try this updated driver to try and fix my DMA ENC errors. However, I can't seem to install the thing. Following the instructions in /doc/README.install as best I can, I:
unpack the tarball cd 0.10 make sudo make install modprobe -r ivtv depmod modprobe ivtv Hoever, when I go and look in the message log, I see that version 0.10.1 is still loading. What am I doing wrong?
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