On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > My computer always freezes after a few minutes with the following > workload: > - watching TV with xawtv > - backup to an external USB disk using backup2l > > As long as I'm not doing both at the same time there are no problems. > > Freeze means: > - X is completely frozen > - TV sound continues to be correctly played (the TV card and the > internal sound chip are connected through an external cable) > - the light of the USB enclosure flashes at about twice per second > > This problem is present in both 2.6.16-rc6-mm1 and 2.6.16-rc5 > (the latter with a patch to support my saa7134 card). > > dmesg is below. > > Any hints how to find the source of this problem?
It's not obvious, at least, not to me. One possibility is that the combination of the USB backup and the TV activity is overloading the PCI bus, and instead of failing gracefully it crashes the whole machine. If that is the reason, it will be very hard to prove. Or fix. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
