Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Apr 2003 00:56:51 -0700 (MST) | From | Benson Chow <> | Subject | v4l bttv bt878 PCI on VIA KT133 chipset crashes? |
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Just wonderring.
I'm getting weird crashes with running the bttv driver that comes with 2.4.20 (0.7.96?) with a bt878 card. I can record fine from it, can change channels, etc. - Great. Except if I keep on starting and stopping mencoder (opening and closing /dev/video), it usually works for a few times from a fresh reboot just fine, but after 5 times (and it's random, it may not start till after 20 times) it *seems* other parts of kernel space gets badly corrupted. My kswapd oopses and dies. Processes cause oopses for no reason. The oopses tend to occur in disk i/o routines, not in the bttv driver for some reason, and after the corruption (?) occurs, all processes can and will die. The machine eventually goes down hard needing a jab at the case Not exactly a graceful shutdown! The machine seems to work fine if I never use the video capture card, even thrashing disk and flooding the PCI network card seems to work fine.
I'm wonderring if anyone else is seeing this issue. Since don't have Windows on this machine nor even have a driver for this card that works for any recent version of windows, I don't know if this is linux specific or not. My guess is it isn't (and it's some hardware incompatibility issue) but I'd like to confirm this - anyone else have this issue?
Thanks,
-bc
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