On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Tree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, John Drescher wrote:
>
>>> No, my current one is Fedora7 which is out of date, but upgrading would
>>> require upgrading the kernel which means this problem will get worse (as
>>> mentioned in the other emails) so I can't do it.
>>>
>> I had this problem which forced me to use PIO mode in the past. That
>
> PIO mode for *what* exactly? I searched the lists for PIO mode, and didn't
> find anything about running IVTV in PIO mode... Can you reply with a link
> to the relevant message?
>
PIO mode for ivtv.
# cat ivtv-0.10.5-pio.patch
--- driver/ivtv-streams.c.new 2007-05-20 23:08:35.000000000 -0400
+++ driver/ivtv-streams.c 2007-05-20 23:10:29.000000000 -0400
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
{ /* IVTV_ENC_STREAM_TYPE_MPG */
"encoder MPEG",
VFL_TYPE_GRABBER, 0,
- PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE, 0, V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE,
+ PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE, 1, V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE,
&ivtv_v4l2_enc_fops
},
{ /* IVTV_ENC_STREAM_TYPE_YUV */
>> fixed the problem but caused increased CPU usage. I ended up fixing
>> this in DMA mode by upgrading the ivtv driver to the Bleeding Edge
>> Driver at http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb. I have not seen this
>> issue since late December. The Bleeding Edge driver allows you to
>> disable the ivtv support in the kernel and use whatever kernel you
>> want so at this point I am using an openvz 2.6.24 kernel.
>
> Do you have any other issues with the bleeding edge driver?
>
None at all. But I know this does not help everyone.
John
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