Hi!
I have big trouble with my SkyStar 2 (2.6C) Card:
When I record something with vdr, I just ended up with many
zero-sized XXX.vdr files, as vdr exits with an error and gets immediately
restarted, just to abort again. In the vdrportal.de Forum I read that this is
due to the automatic demod shutdown of the card, so I changed the vdr script
in a way that the module is unloaded and reloaded after every vdr abort.
But this regularly hangs the whole Computer, no Magic SysReq works, I have to
hit the reset button. Sometimes it records small portions of video (10-15
min). Actually, the computer froze again while writing this message (vdr
resumed the recording after reboot, luckily my MUA saved a backup)
I heard there was something like a "SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT" Module option, but
modinfo doesn't report it (according to the people in the vdr-portal.de
forum, it doesn't solve the problem anyway).
So, is there a way to keep the card "alive" w/o reloading the module? If not,
is there a trick to reload the modules many times w/o hanging the computer?
I already tried to move the card to another PCI slot, this didn't work. As I
have an extra fan to cool the card, I rule out thermal problems, too.
Info from /proc/interrupts:
CPU0 CPU1
0: 639901 19 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 3754 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 4 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 8316 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 10008 1 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 4975 1 IO-APIC-edge ide1
16: 3278 1 IO-APIC-level sym53c8xx, Skystar2
17: 6448 1 IO-APIC-level eth0, eth2, eth3, eth1
18: 18983 0 IO-APIC-level fcpci
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 639889 643605
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
BTW: Are the DVB drivers SMP-safe?
Kernel: 2.6.9-rc3 with kernel dvb (I had the same problem with
2.6.7+dvb-kernel CVS from ca. 2 weeks ago, as well as with 2.6.8.1). The
card worked flawlessly before with 2.6.7 and a much older CVS version, but I
don't remember the date for cvs -D :-(
Attached, there is the output from lspci. I'm sorry I can't give you logs from
just before the lockup, as no HD buffers are flushed.
Thanks for any hints..
Ciao
Martin
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