On Friday 07 September 2007 17:33:35 Steve MacLaren wrote:
> I am struggling with crashes several times a week that are preceded
> by a string of "ENC DMA ERROR"s in the message log (and also by a
> bunch of "ivtv driver not responding"s in mythbackend.log). I am
> using a PVR-150 with ivtv 0.10.1 under Ubunty Fiesty kernel
> 2.6.20-16.
>
> This thread
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/36431
> offers an updated driver that sounds like it may fix the problem.
> I've downloaded the tarball, and I have a few questions:
>
> The README warns against using the update with kernel 2.6.20, but
> says it's OK with 2.6.20.2 and newer. Is 2.6.20-16 older or newer
> than 2.6.20.2?
>
> The README.install contains installation instructions, however, I
> have a question:
> "5. unload any old drivers" - is that the same as saying "modprobe -r
> ivtv"?
>
> Finally, this thread
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/35602
> claims the updated driver from the specific error I am having much
> worse. Does anyone have any further info on the effectiveness of this
> update?
>
> Thanks-
Use the v4l-dvb repository from www.linuxtv.org. It's the latest and
greatest and fixes the DMA errors completely. It turns out to be broken
DMA gather-scatter support of the cx23415/6 chip.
This code will be in kernel 2.6.24.
Regards,
Hans
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