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
