[vdr] Re: VDR developer version 1.1.9

[Meinrad Sauter <meinrad.sauter@gmx.de>]

Am Sonntag 08 September 2002 22:16 schriebst Du:
>Am Sonntag 08 September 2002 18:43 schriebst Du:
>>Am Sonntag 08 September 2002 18:27 schriebst Du:
>>>Meinrad Sauter wrote:
>>>> Hi Klaus, hi all,
>>>>
>>>> great feature, and it works...
>>>> ...at least for a few seconds. Then I get
>>>> GPIO0 irq oops
>>>> ...
>>>> many of them and then:
>>>> dvb0: arm crashed
>>>>
>>>> This happens both when trying to timeshift and switching channels when a
>>>> recording is running.
>>>>
>>>> Any Idea?
>>>> BTW: Tried the CVS driver with FW from NEWSTRUCT as well as your patched
>>>> one. DVB is a TT v1.5
>>>
>>>For a while I ran my VDR box with kernel 2.4.18 because of problems with
>>>my MPEG encoder card. However, with that kernel apparently my harddisk
>>>didn't work with DMA, so the performance was pretty bad. During that time
>>>I also saw lots of "GPIO0 irq oops". Now I'm back to kernel 2.4.10 and it
>>>works fine again.
>>
>>Thanks, thats a possibility. 2.4.18 is exactly the kernel I'm using. Will
>> try a different Version and see if it helps.
>
>I tried 2.4.10-xfs instead, but the problem remains. After a while I get the
>irq oops's even in live viewing mode without any recordings.
>Am I the only one with this problem?
>
OK, did some more testing.
After disabling "doze mode" in BIOS the Oops's were gone as well as the ARM 
crashes. Now everything works fine, except lots of "buffer empty" messages 
during record (assume this is due to the missing "fine tuning").
So, this looks really very promising...

>>>I did see an ARM crash, though, today when I ran a recording and tried to
>>>switch to a channel that was currently not available because the
>>> tranponder was locked due to the recording. Haven't further inverstigated
>>> that yet...
>>>
>>>Klaus

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Meinrad Sauter
email: meinrad.sauter@gmx.de