[linux-dvb] Re: cinergyT2 crashes

[Holger Waechtler <holger@qanu.de>]

tmp@nitwit.de wrote:

> On Tuesday 28 December 2004 15:15, tmp@nitwit.de wrote:
>  
> > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 15:03, you wrote:
> >    
> > > Timo Nentwig wrote:
> > >      
> > > > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 12:44, you wrote:
> > > >        
> > > > > Let it run without mplayer and pipe the stream to a file to be sure:
> > > > >          
> > > > I let it (tzap) run without mplayer.
> > > >        
> > > did it crashed?
> > >      
> > ? Yes, it crashed. Without mplayer running.
> >
> > I just tried cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > /dev/null and it also crashed the
> > machine after abotu 1-1.5h (wasn't at home all the time).
> >    
> Hmm, it crashed again. Without mplayer and without tzap. I *had* tzap+mplayer 
> running but it was not running for quite a while when the machine did freeze 
> (kernel module was not removed, of course).
>  
Sounds really obscure, not really like a driver problem...

are you sure that you don't have some serious hardware problem, maybe 
something heat related in your PC? a broken USB controller that is 
overheating when the device consumes the full ~400 milliamperes from the 
bus? Do you have multiple USB devices at the same card? Did you tried a 
different port? Does it happens if no USB device is connected at all?

Holger