On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Sander Sweers <[email protected]>wrote:

> Please do not top post. Thanks
>

Apologies :)


>
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 18:51, Paul van Gerven
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Alright, I got some more data:
> >
> > 1) The halt-on-switching-off-liveTV: there are no entries in
> > /var/log/messages at or around the time the frontend reports that RingBuf
> > error. Furthermore, I got no errors when testing normal capture or the
> > tv-out. So this seems a Mythtv issue.
> >
> > 2) The teletext: I used Alevt to test and it works fine. Another Mythtv
> > issue, it seems.
>
> We ruled out ivtv, good for us but not for you :-(
>

I consider it progress, as I can take it to the proper forum now :)


> > 3) That leaves the inproper 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 machibe up, imediatly 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?)


>
> If you have closed source modules loaded could you disale 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?


>
> It there any backtrace or error message just before it locks in the kernel
> log?
>

Nope :(


>
> Swapping the card to a different slot and check if the slot/cards is dusty.
>

Swapping is not an option, unfortunately: it just doesn't fit in any other
slot. I did take it out for a bit of a clean, but that doesn't seems to make
a difference.


>
> Greets
> Sander
>
>
Thanks,

Paul



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