[linux-dvb] Fw: [PATCH] fix for stream corruption on budget /Nova-T cards

["Edward Wildgoose" <ed@wildgooses.com>]

Durr, sent all of these to the wrong address...

Thanks Jon, basically this patch fixes the dvb-kernel driver for me
completely, and my corruption was very severe.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Wildgoose" <ed@wildgooses.com>
To: "Jon Burgess" <mplayer@jburgess.uklinux.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] fix for stream corruption on budget /Nova-T
cards


> On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 12:18, Jon Burgess wrote:
> > Here is a patch which completely fixes all the stream distortion
> > problems i've been seeing on my P4 system. This works without needing to
> > apply any of the proposed PCI tweaks.
> >
> > After many hours of debugging last night, it looks like the corruption
> > is caused by a hardware bug in the DMA engine used in the SAA7146. See
> > the patch for more info.
>
> Wow, nice one!  This fixes the problems on my system completely (asus
> p4p800).  Previously I couldn't do a thing without setting PCI bursting
> levels to zero!  Tested it against a clean cvs of dvb-kernel and had
> corruption without the patch, then tried with the patch, and picture was
> perfect (only been using it for a short while now, but it is certainly a
> HUGE improvement!)
>
> Thanks so much Jon
>
> Ed W
>



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