On Thu Jan 3 12:14:40 2002 Roland Scheidegger wrote...
>
>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...).
>
Thanks for the reply.
I looked into this, and found that using 0.8 required 2 kernel parches, and
one of them seemed to only be avaialbale for 2.4.15. So knowing that work
is being done on this, I think I'll just stay with what works, untill 0.8
comes inot the kernel main tree. That is the plan, I assume?
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