[ivtv-users] Fwd: PVR-350 decoder freezing on CentOS 5.3

[sdkovacs]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Monday 21 September 2009 14:32:02 sdkovacs wrote:
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>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>> >> Hi Hans,
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>> >> I upgraded to the bleeding edge v4l-dvb driver which seems to be
>> >> version
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>> >> 1.4.1: ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.1
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>> >>
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>> >> After about 20 minutes of playback the machine hard froze without any
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>> >> error messages in the mythfrontend.log or /var/log/messages.
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>> >> Any tips on further troubleshooting?
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>> > Brr, hard to say. One is to check /proc/interrupts and see if ivtv is
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>> > sharing interrupts with another driver. If that other driver is buggy,
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>> > then that may cause problems. You can try to move the card to another
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>> > slot.
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>> ivtv0 (The PVR-350) is not sharing any interrupts.
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>> > Another is to upgrade to a newer kernel.
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>> > The problem is that I haven't seen such issues for ages now. What kernel
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>> > were you running under Fedora 8? Was that also 2.6.18?
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>> Hans,
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>> I was running 2.6.2[?] - whatever the latest fedora kernel was when it
>> went
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>> EOL.
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>> Well, the good news is that since the initial freeze after the upgrade
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>> to ivtv 1.4.1, the machine has been rock solid - no freezes at all.
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>> Thanks for your suggestion to upgrade to the v4l bleeding, it seems to
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>> have worked.
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> Hoorah!
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> I wouldn't have known what to do if it hadn't worked, so I'm glad that it is
> now solid again.

Well, I spoke to soon. The PVR-350 decoder reset again twice tonight.
The machine didn't freeze, but I had to reboot to get the display
working properly. Is there anything else I can set to debug, or is
this something I just need to live with?


2009-09-24 20:02:25.531 IVD Error: Fetching frames played from decoder
                        eno: Input/output error (5)
2009-09-24 20:02:30.800 IVD Error: Fetching frames played from decoder
                        eno: Input/output error (5)
2009-09-24 20:02:30.801 IVTV rawframes decreased! Did the decoder reset?


Thanks!



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>> > Regards,
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>> >        Hans