On 5/28/07, ben handley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry if I wasn't clear enough -- I'll try to be more precise here.
>
> When I use an smp-enabled kernel, I can use kaffeine, mplayer, or
> mythtv and they all receive and record just fine for 15-30 minutes.
> After that the picture looks like the reception is terrible -- mostly
> green, sometimes with pieces of image around the edges and a few small
> squares of non-green (maybe signal, maybe noise, hard to tell) through
> the middle. The audio is similarly messed up, and the EPG doesn't seem
> to download correctly either. The changeover is sudden, but doesn't
> seem to happen after a fixed amount of time -- it's usually about
> 15-30 minutes. If I record programs in this state the recording looks
> exactly the same as the above description. If I play old files
> everything is fine, it is only receiving that has problems. Restarting
> the X server has no effect. Switching to another player has no effect.
> The light on the usb stick stays solid green, ie receiving the signal
> fine. It's not flashing as it does when reception is bad.
>
> Scanning for channels works partially: it picks up one frequency with
> 4 channels, but none of the other frequencies that it found when in a
> working state. It can still tune to the previously set channels, even
> though it can't detect them, although of course the reception is
> terrible.
>
> Unplugging the device, unloading the module, replugging, and reloading
> has no effect. Killing the X server and restarting has no effect --
> after both those I still have exactly the same reception issue I
> described above.
>
> I took a shot of the contents of the movie via xine -- you can get it
> from http://steelgarden.com/badreception.png
> The shot was taken from a saved file that I replayed after rebooting
> with an non-smp kernel.
>
> I have also put my kernel .config file up at
> http://steelgarden.com/.config in case there's something relevant in
> there. Could it be a problem that I compiled the kernel with the dvb
> drivers as module, and then replaced the .ko files? Should I recompile
> with no hint of dvb in the kernel itself?
>
> I hope this is specific enough. If there's any other information I can
> provide please tell me.
>

can you attach a dmesg logfile after plugging in the device, and after
replugging the device after around ~20 minutes when the error occured
(maybe also xorg log might help)?

Markus

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