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<font size=3>Given that the nvidia drivers do not touch /dev/video0 or
/dev/video1 and only ivtv does, I was wondering why you think that
changing the drivers would help other than it would just be a random item
to change? <br><br>
-- Mache<br><br>
At 08:44 AM 10/18/2006, William Munson wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Mache Creeger wrote:<br>
> 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>
My suggestion is to load a different version of the nvidia drivers. As
<br>
far as I can tell, every version of nvidia drivers has some sort of <br>
problem and many of them are unusable with mythtv. The only version I
<br>
have found to be stable is: 1:0.7.0-117 with firmware 2:1.8a-10. Kernel
<br>
module 2.6.17-1.2142-FC4.<br><br>
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