Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:08:11 +1100 | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: Why my computer freeze completely with xawtv ? |
| |
Gregoire Favre wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:53:46AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Hello again :-) > > >>Gregoire Favre wrote: >> >>>I use DVB with VDR, but I can do the crash all the time without VDR, all >>>I have to do is to have xawtv running and having a process that write >>>fast enough data to an HD (I tested xfs, reiserfs, ext2 and ext3 with >>>same result). If I don't have xawtv running I can't make crashing my >>>system which is rock stable :-) >> >>Is xawtv running as root or with real time privileges? That could do it. > > > Normally I start xawtv this way: > xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0 -geometry 770x580-0-0 -xvport 61 & as a normal > user, but I don't know what real time privileges are ? > I haven't modified in any way xawtv : > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 243K Oct 12 09:36 /usr/bin/xawtv
What does 'top' show as the PRI for xawtv?
Con [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |