<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: superhappyfunball <superhappyfunball@gmail.com><br>To: Muppet Man <muppetman4662@yahoo.com><br>Cc: Chaogui Zhang <czhang1974@gmail.com>; linux-dvb@linuxtv.org<br>Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:29:47 PM<br>Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Pinnacle 800i driver problems<br><br>
Muppet Man wrote:<br><br> > Ok, I did the sudo make rminstall and rm rf v4l-dvb, downloaded the<br> > file from the link, extracted, cd, sudo make, sudo make install,<br> > rebooted, and still had the same problem<br><br>Indeed. I even made sure the old modules were completely wiped before I
<br>installed a clean set of modules from mercurial.<br><br>In short...<br><br>[ 50.272060] cx88/2: cx2388x MPEG-TS Driver Manager version 0.0.6
loaded<br>[ 50.272223] cx88[0]: subsystem: 11bd:0051, board: Pinnacle PCTV HD <br>800i [card=58,autodetected]<br>[ 50.272294] cx88[0]: TV tuner type 76, Radio tuner type -1<br>[ 50.418386] input: cx88 IR (Pinnacle PCTV HD 800i) as
/class/input/input6<br>[ 50.418494] cx88[0]/2: cx2388x 8802 Driver Manager<br>[ 50.418685] cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:02:02.2, rev: 5, irq: 18, <br>latency: 32, mmio: 0xf4000000<br>[ 50.615427] cx88/0: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.6 loaded<br>[ 50.615675] cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:02:02.0, rev: 5, irq: 18, <br>latency: 32, mmio: 0xf2000000<br>[ 51.253871] cx88/2: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.6 loaded<br>[ 51.253935] cx88/2: registering cx8802 driver, type: dvb access:
shared<br>[ 51.254792] cx88[0]/2: subsystem: 11bd:0051, board: Pinnacle PCTV HD
<br>800i [card=58]<br>[ 51.254861] cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based DVB/ATSC card<br>[ 52.343530] tuner' 0-0064: chip found @ 0xc8 (cx88[0])<br>[ 52.375709] DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0])<br>[ 52.458249] Modules linked in: snd_mpu401 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_emu10k1 <br>snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_util_mem snd_seq_midi snd_hwdep <br>snd_seq_dummy s5h1409 snd_seq_oss tuner tea576$<br>[ 52.465209] [<f8a1dbc0>] cx88_tuner_callback+0x0/0x60 [cx88xx]<br>[ 52.465537] [<f8a1fcee>] attach_inform+0xee/0x180 [cx88xx]<br>[ 52.465664] [<f8a1dbc0>] cx88_tuner_callback+0x0/0x60 [cx88xx]<br>[ 52.470649] cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]<br>[ 52.470759] cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0<br>[ 52.476241] cx88[0]/1: CX88x/0: ALSA support for cx2388x boards<br><br><br>The only way I could get this dmesg output, was to boot off the
recovery <br>kernel. Even under the recovery kernel, attempting to start or load X
in <br>any way (kdm, gdm, or startx) results in a complete and utter <br>crash/freeze. You cannot get out of it without a system reset. You
can't <br> even get into an alternate tty to kill the process. It just locks.<br><br>I guess my question at this point is twofold:<br><br>1) is this, as Steve suggested earlier, a problem with core videobuf?
Or <br>is it the nVidia driver? The hang point seems to be when nVidia gets <br>invoked and X Starts. kdm/gdm do not even seem to get a chance to load.<br><br>2) What, if anything can I do to get it to work, or help you guys
figure <br>out where the problem is? I am open to being a guinea pig in any way I <br>can to help get this solved. =)<br><br>The compile runs fine. The modules install fine. Something else is
amiss.<br><br>Christopher.<br><br>-- <br>"Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball"<br><a ymailto="mailto:superhappyfunball@gmail.com" href="mailto:superhappyfunball@gmail.com">superhappyfunball@gmail.com</a><br><br>"You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded <br>perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the church?" -- Bishop
<br>of Bath and Wells<br><br>Wow,<br>You went way, way over my head with the start up and stuff like that. I basically turned my computer on, walked away for 15 minutes. Anywho, I would be willing to be a test subject also, but I am rather new to the linux thing, and very new to the driver compiling.<br>Ed<br></div><br></div></div><br>
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