Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 04 May 2003 23:21:41 +0200 | From | "David J. M. Karlsen" <> | Subject | Re: v4l bttv bt878 PCI on VIA KT133 chipset crashes? |
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Benson Chow wrote: > 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 had problems with 2.4.20 with the same hardware and using the program zapping for viewing. My box just froze. I thought maybe it was caused by sharing interrupts - but the machine hasn't frozen yet when I switched over to using xawtv instead.
ints: david@skunk:~$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 29393376 XT-PIC timer 1: 32 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 3529723 XT-PIC ide2, ide3, bttv 8: 4 XT-PIC rtc 10: 119935 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, advansys 11: 2597210 XT-PIC via82cxxx, aic7xxx, eth0 14: 2243192 XT-PIC ide0 15: 2136742 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 29394447 ERR: 8021 MIS: 0 david@skunk:~$
HW: david@skunk:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) 00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:08.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev 01) 00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (rev 01) 00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Advanced System Products, Inc ABP940-U / ABP960-U (rev 03) 00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 00:0c.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 82) david@skunk:~$ lspci
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