On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Matt Beadon<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Ken Mink <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> This sounds almost exactly like the reboot issue I've been having. I'm >> using a AMD processor, but the motherboard is VIA chipsets. I am running >> CentOS. The kernel reports itself as 2.6.18, but there a lot of >> backporting in it. >> >> I am going to start compiling vanilla kernels and see if I can find one >> where the PVR-500 is stable. I'm starting with 2.6.25 and working >> backwards. >> >> I am not willing to bet on my success. My issue could easily be a >> hardware problem. My gut says it's not, though. >> >> Jeroen Roos wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > >> > I have a PVR-500 card on a Via Epia EN15000 board. I am running Gentoo >> > Linux on it for MyhthTV. Ever since upgrading from kernel 2.6.22, I have >> > been having reboots on my system whenever it tries recording something. >> > Because I have had some issues with the SATA drivers on it previously, I >> > have always suspected that to be the problem, however, after some more >> > research I am now pretty sure that the IVTV driver is the culprit. >> > >> > When using kernel 2.6.22 (with Gentoo patches) everything works fine. I >> > have tried many different kernels after that, and with all the system >> > eventually reboots. The current I have running is the vanilla 2.6.29.4 >> > kernel, still the same problem. >> > >> > I can easily reproduce the problem by running: >> > >> > dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=10000 >> > >> > usually it reboots before it reaches 5000 blocks, sometimes it takes a >> > little longer, but eventually the system reboots. >> > >> > I think that I rule out all other components of the system by copying to >> > /dev/null. >> > >> > Any video recorded with the card is good (that is, when it's not sent to >> > /dev/null :-) ) >> > >> > I have checked http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto and everything >> > seems to be installed as it should be, after that I checked >> > http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting, but that does not >> > seem to mention anything that is describing my situation. >> > >> > I have tried setting debug to 127, but I don't see anything that looks >> > like an error, it also doesn't display anything just before crashing. >> > >> > the dmesg | tac ... etc script on the "how to ask for help" page does >> > not give any output, so I'll just include dmesg | grep ivtv... >> > >> > I think I am using the in-kernel version of ivtv, but I am not 100% >> > sure, how do I check? > > I can't say definitively how to check but I was using the in-kernel version > for 2.6.26 (debian lenny) and got the following in my dmesg: > ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.1 > Which is newer than the one you reported below. > >> > >> > I have run out of options on what to try next, any ideas? > > How about building the latest ivtv? http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto >>
On gentoo if you want to do that remove/disable ivtv from the kernel. Remove media-tv/ivtv and install media-tv/v4l-dvb-hg-0.1-r3 and media-tv/ivtv-utils John _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
