> On Wednesday 24 October 2007 19:01:18 Dan Ritter wrote: > > I sent this a few days ago, but it looks like I hadn't been > > fully subscribed to the list at the time and the moderator > > needed to approve it. > > > > I was having ivtvX: DMA TIMEOUT 00000001 errors, so I updated to > > 0.10.6 > > > > After 1 day, 15 hours uptime, I got the same errors again. Many > > previous recordings went well. These errors always occur during > > a recording. When they happen, the ivtv device in question > > becomes completely unusable. > > I have two suggestions: first edit ivtv-irq.c: search for the > ivtv_dma_enc_start function, at the end of this function you see this > line: > > itv->dma_timer.expires = jiffies + HZ / 10; > > Remove ' / 10'. Compile, install, etc. and see if the TIMEOUT returns. > > If so, then install the v4l-dvb repository. See > http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download#Bleeding_Edge_driver on > how to install v4l-dvb. > > If it still happens with that version, then let me know. In that case I > will need high volume debug logs. > > The fact that 0.10.1 keeps on running suggests that something else might > be going on here then 'just' a DMA timeout. > This was the exact problem I was having Hans. And it only happened at the beginning of a recording resulting at a zero length file. When I get a chance I will test this and post my results.
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