[mythtv-users] FC3 less stable than FC1? Getting Cannot allocate
memory error
David George
david at thegeorges.us
Thu Dec 16 12:50:01 UTC 2004
On 12/16/2004 12:42 AM, George Lopez wrote:
>I installed FC1 last year with few problems. Now I am
>trying to install FC3 and am having only moderate
>success. For example, I am not able to get through
>step 10. Install capture drivers. I did search
>through the mail list and have not been able to
>resolve my issue with "Cannot allocate memory" errors.
> Seems like everything is set up correctly. Just
>don't know what I am missing. I pasted my
>modprobe.conf file at bottom.
>
>
I have seen this before with the ivtv drivers. Try rebooting and
continuing the setup from where it failed. IIRC, the ivtv drivers take
quite a bit of memory and if there isn't contiguous memory free you may
get the cannot allocate messages.
HTH,
David
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