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<font size=3>Since I upgraded from 0.19 to 0.20, I have found that random
reboots <br>
of my Fedora Core 5 version 2.6.17-1.2187 server with a dual tuner <br>
WinTV PVR 500 card, Abit NF7-S2G motherboard, and Nvidia FX6200 <br>
graphics card, sometimes results in a missing "/dev/video1" and
just <br>
a "/dev/video0". This does not happen all the time, just
sometimes, <br>
with no discernable reason. When it does, the second tuner becomes
<br>
unavailable for use.<br><br>
When "/dev/video1" is missing, running "dmesg | grep
ivtv" indeed <br>
shows that when the first tuner was attempted to be initialized there
<br>
were problems loading the driver. There never seems to be a problem
<br>
loading the very same drivers that failed for the first tuner for the
<br>
second tuner.<br><br>
I checked the Internet and noted that some folks have suggested that
<br>
"/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug" may be the problem. On
checking the <br>
contents of the file, I have found it to be empty. The discussion
<br>
groups suggested that I add "/sbin/hotplug" to the file before
<br>
rebooting. While this action has helped in the frequency of the
<br>
server coming up with the proper configuration, I still cannot get <br>
reliable, repeatable boots that always result in both
"/dev/video0" <br>
and "/dev/video1" being available. Since power outages do
cause <br>
random reboots, I want to make sure that the machine will always <br>
reboot to the proper state.<br><br>
Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this problem?<br><br>
-- Mache<br><br>
# rpm -qa | grep ivtv<br>
ivtv-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5-0.7.1-118.fc5.at<br>
perl-Video-ivtv-0.13-8.fc5.at<br>
ivtv-0.7.1-118.fc5.at<br>
ivtv-firmware-1.8a-10.at<br><br>
# rpm -qa | grep nvidia<br>
kmod-nvidia-1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2187_FC5<br>
nvidia-graphics8774-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5-1.0_8774-75.fc5.at<br>
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8774-1.lvn5<br>
nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-5.fc5.at<br>
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