On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Gerd Knorr wrote: > alsa@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > seems, that something wrong with memory, maybe. > > computer hangs on read() request (xawtv). > Without more details it is next to impossible to debug that ... > I've just uploaded a new snapshot. That one might work better as I've > hacked in PCI quirks support, so it will enable the workarounds for > known motherboard chipset bugs. OK. I'll check it. If You will give some ideas on what to detect/debug etc. I'll do that. also, it will increase my experience. and, also, I have 2 different cards. We have some measurements done. Nice card, but with problems (less than other cards) with spectral characteristics and freqs. If somebody is interested in, I can bring results, maybe (pictures with oscillograms). But, really, it is a nice card. Rather, compared to saa713*. > It also has streaming capture support, so xawtv should give you 25 fps > frame rate. Picture is still very noisy (for me with PAL), it also > has some other known issues. OH! nice! > > the orig/ driver really segfaults. > Yea, I know. It isn't that hard to fix the segfaults, but that still > doesn't give me a working driver ... for me too. I've got some pictures (after manual sig11 elimination) - and it hangs. but I refuse to continue work with it. Your way is better.