[vdr] Re: Version of 1.3 that works ?

[Stefan Taferner <taferner@kde.org>]

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 20:28, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 11:12 +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > Rainer Zocholl wrote:
> > > try 1.3.17 with the thread save patches(you MUST apply them!)
> >
> > It's not necessary if your glibc is compiled with thread local storage
> > enabled (as is the case with mandrake 10.0). In fact I have everything
> > working (including streamdev) with none of these patches  (though I have
> > some occasional vdr crash).
>
> And on the other hand, 1.3.17 with all available threading patches
> applied to both VDR itself and all plugins is the first version since
> 1.3.12 that works robustly for me.  Everything between those versions
> (including vanilla 1.3.17) would just completely lock up the box after
> varying (30min-8h) intervals.  The patched 1.3.17 has been running
> without problems since last Saturday.  This is Fedora Core 3, TT budget
> DVB-C, DXR3 and a bunch of other plugins.

Ah, good to know :-)

My vanilla 1.3.16 also locks with varying intervals. It does not lock the
computer, I can kill it, however.

Sounds like I will give a patched 1.3.17 a try.

--Stefan