Ramon Hofer <[email protected]> wrote: >On 05/17/2011 02:02 AM, Andy Walls wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 21:09 +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: >>> Thank you again Andy >>> >>> >>> On 05/15/2011 10:31 PM, Andy Walls wrote: >>>> On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 14:48 +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: >>>>> Hi list >>>>> >>>>> I have a WinTV PVR 500 and the "ivtv0: DMA TIMEOUT" problem which >I'm >>>>> trying to solve for several months now. >>>>> After reading through wikis, forum and mailing posts but I'm still >not >>>>> sure where the problem could be. >>>> Here's the fix: >>>> >>>> >http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=d213ad08362909ab50fbd6568fcc9fd568268d29 >>>> >>>> I'm not sure what kernel version it went into, but it is certainly >not >>>> in kernel v2.6.32. >>> I don't want to do anything wrong so I'd like to ask if this is >>> correct to patch kernel version 2.6.32-5-amd64: >>> I found this Debian kernel handbook: >>> http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html >>> >>> # apt-get install linux-source-2.6.32 >>> $ cd ~/System >>> $ tar jxf /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32.tar.bz2 >>> >>> But when I try to apply the patch I get the following: >>> $ patch -p1< ivtv.patch >>> patching file drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-irq.c >>> Hunk #1 FAILED at 628. >>> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file >>> drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-irq.c.rej >> Hi Ramon, >> >> The entire patch failed to be applied. The patch was made against a >> kernel more recent than the 2.6.32 version you are using, and the >file >> ivtv-irq.c is too different. >> >> You have a few choices: >> >> 1. Adapt the patch by hand applying the needed changes to the >ivtv-irq.c >> source code file in your old kernel version (2.6.32). Then compile >the >> kernel and modules and install the ivtv driver module. >> >> or >> >> 2. Upgrade to at least kernel version 2.6.37.4. This seems to be the >> earliest "stable" kernel to which the patch has been backported and >> officially released. >> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37.4 >> >> You shouldn't need to patch the kernel or build the kernel, if debian >> provides a 2.6.37.4 kernel image package for you. >> >> or >> >> 3. Build the bleeding edge v4l-dvb drivers against your kernl and >> install them. There are no guarantees on this working well for any >> particular kernel version: >> >> >http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers >> >> >> I will not recommend #3 for you, unless you are *very* comfortable >with >> building modules from source and dealing with build failures. >> >> >> Regards, >> Andy >> >> > >I went for the second choice and installed kernel 2.6.38 from the >debian >backports. >The PVR-500 seems to work fine now. >I'm going to test it intensively :-) > >Unfortunately I have problems with my other card (TeVii S480 and >s2-liplianin). >But this belongs somewhere else I suppose. > > >Thanks again >Ramon
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