Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-09 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > It looks to be an old reported trouble with bttv cards. > > There is a doc at kernel that treats this subject. It is at: > Documentation/video4linux/bttv/README.freeze > > > Overlay works by transfering data from

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-08 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Bodo Eggert wrote: > Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Now I've upgraded to X.org 6.8.2 and done a first stress-test (copying >>large files from network to local HDD), and I still can post. > > > It occured again. So it wasn't that easy. Bodo/Jeremy/Castet, It looks to be a

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Duncan Sands
> Jeremy do you use overlay or gradisplay ? Dunno about Jeremy, but I'm using overlay and getting hard hangs. Ciao, D. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread matthieu castet
Hi, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Jeremy, BTTV cards uses massive data transfer via DMA when you are watching TV, transfering one screen every 1/30 s. Maybe you are suffering from a trouble on your motherboard or at board physical connection. I had (have ?) similar problem with a bt878

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Bodo Eggert
Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I've upgraded to X.org 6.8.2 and done a first stress-test (copying > large files from network to local HDD), and I still can post. It occured again. So it wasn't that easy. -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbrei

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Jeremy Laine
Hi Mauro, First of all, many thanks for taking the time to reply to my email! > We don't have any other OOPS reported for BTTV cards. The reply from Bodo Eggert seems to indicate otherwise.. Here is some extra information as requested: > 1) desactivate any overclocking at motherboard/vid

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Jeremy, BTTV cards uses massive data transfer via DMA when you are watching TV, transfering one screen every 1/30 s. Maybe you are suffering from a trouble on your motherboard or at board physical connection. We don't have any other OOPS reported for BTTV cards. I believe it is so

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Krufky
Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:44 -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: bttv is now maintained by Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, as part of the video4linux project. I am forwarding this to Mauro and the video4linux list. Linux and Kernel Video Where's the MAINTAINER

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:44 -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > bttv is now maintained by Mauro Carvalho Chehab > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, as part of the video4linux project. I am > forwarding this to Mauro and the video4linux list. Linux and Kernel > Video Where's the MAINTAINERS patch? Lee - To un

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Jeremy Laine
> Heavy HDD IO almost certainly caused soon death (recognizable by heavy > picture distortion), while an idle system lasted one evening. It did not > happen with kernel 2.4 and a NVidia card on XF86. You are very probably onto something there, the latest OOPS I sent (the 2AM one) occurred while my

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Jeremy Laine
> Try without loading all those proprietary modules (vmmon, vmnet, nvidia). Done, sorry about not doing it from the onset. I reproduced the OOPS using the "vesa" driver of XFree86. Below is the OOPS as well as environment information: Jul 6 22:57:29 sharky kernel: tuner 2-0060: TV freq (0.00) ou

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Duncan Sands
> I've seen similar hehaviour (machine halts) with a BT848 on a VT82C686 > board while displaying the picture on a radeon card under X.org 6.8.1. I have the same problem with a Bt878 on a VT82C686 board with a Radeon 7500 card. The problem predates X.org. > Heavy HDD IO almost certainly caused s

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-06 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 14:11, Jeremy Laine wrote: > I keep getting OOPS's when using a Bt878 TV card, I am basically unable to > watch > TV for more than about 20-30mn without my system grinding to a halt. > I have seen suggestions to try without PREEMPT enabled, which I will be doing > shortl

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Krufky
bttv is now maintained by Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, as part of the video4linux project. I am forwarding this to Mauro and the video4linux list. Linux and Kernel Video Jeremy Laine wrote: Hi! I keep getting OOPS's when using a Bt878 TV card, I am basically unable to watch

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-06 Thread Bodo Eggert
Jeremy Laine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep getting OOPS's when using a Bt878 TV card, I am basically unable to > watch TV for more than about 20-30mn without my system grinding to a halt. If > I do not make use of the bttv module, the system is perfectly stable. I saw > the bttv module is ma

RE: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:02 -0400, Piszcz, Justin wrote: > You probably aren't going to get any help with this until you reproduce > the problem without the vm* binary-only drivers. > Also without nvidia. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

RE: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-06 Thread Piszcz, Justin
You probably aren't going to get any help with this until you reproduce the problem without the vm* binary-only drivers. Justin. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Laine Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 6:11 AM To: linux-kernel@vger.kern