On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:41:35 -0400 (EDT) Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dan Serban" <[email protected]> > > > On 03/21/11 19:56, Dan Serban wrote: > > > > Is there a patch against any current kernel release? > > > > > > I'll start there, but I do have a lot of time invested in gathering > > > possible information on this, my backend has been unusable since > > > November due to this bug. I've tried many different things to > > > alleviate the issue, though I feel that maybe I'm overlooking > > > something simple. Like a bug in the IVTV driver. > > > > > > Let me know if that's the case :). > > > > Is this a bug with IVTV? Do I have too many PCI devices? Is IO a > > bottleneck and possibly causing one of the PVR150's to hang? > > > > What can I look at to resolve my problem? > > Possibly. Did you report your kernel and IVTV versions; I don't recall > seeing them? > My apologies for the super late reply, I've been fighting other things lately, not just this oddity. My kernel is 2.6.32, debian squeeze standard kernel. I'm not at the location where the server is, but I'll attempt to give you exact specifics. > I do have this message in my own logs: > > > *********************** WARNING *********************** > > ivtv drivers prior to 0.10.0 can cause lockups when > > reading VBI. Drivers between 0.10.5 and 1.0.3+ do not > > properly capture VBI data on PVR-250 and PVR-350 cards. > > though I don't know if it's going to be related to your problem > or not, or whether you in fact see it. > I do capture VBI, and do see that output, but my ivtv driver is much newer than the ones its warning about. So I never gave it any importance. > That machine has kernel: > > > Linux plaintain 2.6.34.7-0.3-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-09-20 15:27:38 > > +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > > and ivtvctl 0.10.5, though the driver version seems to be > > > ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.1. > > We don't see lockups (anymore, since I replaced the motherboard), but > we do get two flavors of stuttering, one which also stutters the audio, > and one which doesn't. I suspect bus mastering problems or XFS problems, > but haven't been able to pin it down yet. Yeah, it's odd, though I'm really starting to contemplate a different setup, I don't know at this point, there doesn't seem to be much out there for information on this bug. I've run debug via ivtv for ages, and still can't see anything out of the ordinary. > > Cheers, > -- jra > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
