[mythtv] MythTV hangs

[Argenis Tovar]

I tried one of the patches (and since I've never done that before, I'm
probably doing something wrong). Per your suggestion I downloaded patch
38a, extracted the files and went to the "driver" directory. Since I'm
running a 2.4 kernel:

# mv Makefile Makefile.orig
# mv Makefile2.4 Makefile
# make
Makefile:11: /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl_37.rhfc1.at/build/.config:
No such
file or directory
grep: /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl_37.rhfc1.at/build/.config: No such
file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target
`/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl_37.rhfc1.at/build/.config'.  Stop.


"2.4.22-1.2174.nptl_37.rhfc1.at" is the kernel that I'm running, so what
is the problem?



Thanks,

Argenis


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:43 PM
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv] MythTV hangs

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Thursday 15 April 2004 08:16 am, Mike Drons wrote:
>  
>
>>It happens to my machine as well.  I have posted many times to the
myth
>>users and have not been able to fix it.  My issues are definitely
related
>>to MythTV frontend/backend.
>>    
>>
>
>If your entire machine locks up, or the ivtv driver hangs and stops
providing 
>data, it's not mythtv related.
>
Exactly.  I recommend trying different versions of the ivtv driver. For 
me, some
drivers work and some don't.

I *highly* recommend signing up for the ivtv mailing lists ( 
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=73219 ) if using the ivtv 
drivers.  They're all relatively low-volume list (at least compared to 
the Myth lists), and answers a lot of questions about the iTVC15-family 
of chips.

The current consensus on the ivtv ML ( 
http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/current/threads.html ) seems to be that 
driver stability is significantly increased on a (properly installed) 
Linux 2.6 machine.  Those who have reported this are not yet using NPTL 
(Native POSIX Thread Library), although doing so may also help--testing 
is still being done.

Regardless of which kernel you use, I wouldn't use any ivtv drivers 
prior to ivtv-0.1.9.   Other versions you may want to try:
ivtv-0.1.9 with Matthias Badaire's prepdma patch (from 
http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ )
ivtv-0.1.9 with Hans Verkuil's patch ( from 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hverkuil/ )
ivtv-0.1.9a (from http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ --it's basically 
0.1.9 with prepdma, Hans' patch, and Linux 2.6 support)
ivtv-0.1.10pre2 with Chris Kennedy's patches (from 
http://kmos.org/~ckennedy/ivtv/ )
-- Specifically, 38a, 36b, 35, 27, 24, 07D, 06a (in that order)

If using Linux 2.6, start with Chris Kennedy's patches.

Users of the PVR-350's TV out should also use Matthias Badaire's ivtvdev

X driver.

Mike
_______________________________________________
mythtv-dev mailing list
mythtv-dev at mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev