Durr, sent all of these to the wrong address... Thanks Jon, basically this patch fixes the dvb-kernel driver for me completely, and my corruption was very severe.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Wildgoose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jon Burgess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] fix for stream corruption on budget /Nova-T cards > On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 12:18, Jon Burgess wrote: > > Here is a patch which completely fixes all the stream distortion > > problems i've been seeing on my P4 system. This works without needing to > > apply any of the proposed PCI tweaks. > > > > After many hours of debugging last night, it looks like the corruption > > is caused by a hardware bug in the DMA engine used in the SAA7146. See > > the patch for more info. > > Wow, nice one! This fixes the problems on my system completely (asus > p4p800). Previously I couldn't do a thing without setting PCI bursting > levels to zero! Tested it against a clean cvs of dvb-kernel and had > corruption without the patch, then tried with the patch, and picture was > perfect (only been using it for a short while now, but it is certainly a > HUGE improvement!) > > Thanks so much Jon > > Ed W > -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
