On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:31, Paul van Gerven <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 3) That leaves the improper shutdown, which is certainly an issue with >> > the >> > ivtvfb module. Any ideas to debug this? >> >> Can you try to unload the ivtvfb module via "modprobe -r ivtvfb" and >> check: >> if this produces anything in the logs? >> does it also lock the machine up, immediately or again at shutdown? > > This just results in a message that the module is still in use. Shouldn't I > stop the framebuffer first? (If so: how?)
Yes, any program using the framebuffer should be stopped. >> If you have closed source modules loaded could you disable them and see >> if it still locks up? > > I have Nvidia drivers, but as I mentioned they are loaded on a separate > X-server. Is it still worthwhile to try this? Maybe, the nvidia driver is a black box and there is no way to tell what is going on. You can switch to the nv driver when testing. In xorg.conf in de device section change nvidia to nv. >> It there any backtrace or error message just before it locks in the kernel >> log? > > Nope :( Maybe there is one after unloading the ivtvfb module. Greets Sander _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
