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? -- Stan Brown stanb@xxxxxxxx 843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
