[vdr] VDR not starting properly with softdevice on boot
Kartsa
kari at kniivila.com
Wed Jan 17 21:16:55 CET 2007
Marko Mäkelä kirjoitti:
>> And this is oprofiler output
>>
>> CPU: CPU with timer interrupt, speed 0 MHz (estimated)
>> Profiling through timer interrupt
>>
>
> Please try appending "lapic" to the kernel command line. The timer
> interrupt is the last resort to use when the performance counters
> are unavailable.
>
I have to test this out also.
>
>> samples % image name symbol name
>> 9500 98.0595 anon (tgid:2600 range:0x48c000-0x48d000) (no symbols)
>> 188 1.9405 vdr (no symbols)
>>
>
> Please compile softdevice and vdr with -g, or at the very least do not
> strip them. We're interested in the function names.
>
What do you mean by -g? Where does that option go? I must point out that
I am quite a novice in linuxe still.
>
>> I suspended softdevice output from the settings but it made no change.
>> Still after reboot vdr takes all cpu time.
>>
>
> I would suspect that you haven't set up TCP/IP networking before
> starting vdr for the first time.
>
I did make a working linux box with all updates before even installing vdr.
> Have you applied any patches to vdr? I don't think that this is
> affected by softdevice at all.
>
As I said in the first post (and some lines up) I set this box up by
first installing FC6 and updating it. Then by using yum installed vdr
and subtitles plugin. Then I downloaded vdr source and used it to
compile softdevice because there is no ready made package for it. I
downloaded also subtitles plugin to have vdr compiled as the yum
installed version.
Somewhere in the middle I also installed DirectFB.
Now that I try to think afterwards what I did and when I am not sure
about anything. I wanted to use yum to get all installed as easily as
possible.
Maybe I should get FF card and forget softdevice - its much easier :)
Thats how I have my other vdr box.
Maybe I'll start from the scratch and install everything in right order.
I made a test and recompiled vdr and plugins and put starting command in
rc.local. Now it starts ok and cpu load is about 60%. But if I let FC6
initscript start vdr I get 99%cpu load on startup.
\\Kartsa
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