Stan Brown wrote: > I have a 750MHZ Atahlon machine with a WinTV card in it. I have been using > it to view tv using framebuffer TV for quite some time and have had no > problems. > > This was using a 2.4.2 kernel that I compiled myself using Debian's > kernel-pacakage mechanisim. > > When I compile a later (as in 2.4.16) kernel using the same config file, and > try to run it. I get lots of hard lockups on the system while playing TV. > The sond continuse to play, but the video is frozen, and I can't change > sessions using the ALT keys, nor does the machien respond to a ping. > > Are ther any configuration changes I should be making here? If not can > anyone sugest a mechanism for troubleshooting this? I hate to freeze this > machine in time to an older kernel. > >
Have you tried bttv-0.8.x ? I had the same problem (with a different setup however, bx-based board, celeron, and using xawtv) and gave up on getting the bttv-0.7.x to work stable. Increasing the pci latency seemed to help a bit (time before lockup increased from near-instant to several minutes, sometimes hours), but only after updating to 0.8.x the lockups went away completely (I had to keep the increased pci latency however, if not it still would lock up from time to time - looks not too good IMHO). Interestingly, bttv-0.7.x doesn't lockup on my second computer (VIA KT133A chipset with lackluster pci performance, I'm able to see every hd access as missing pixels...). Roland _______________________________________________ Video4linux-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
