[mythtv-users] is it a bug

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 01:48:53 UTC 2005


On 8/4/05, Claude Gélinas agr. <claude at phyto.qc.ca> wrote:
> My /var/log messages is filling rapidly to disk capacity +++ gig
> with message like these when live tv is on
> 
> Aug  3 21:08:21 video kernel: ivtv: Timeout waiting for data! Encoder
> buffers have 0x00000000 bytes.
> Aug  3 21:08:21 video kernel: ivtv: ENC: REG_DMAXFER wait failed
> Aug  3 21:08:21 video kernel: ivtv: DMA Registers State: xfer:
> 0x00000000, state: 0x00000003 dec_addr: 0x3d52300c enc_addr: 0x3c920060
> control: 0x00000003
> Aug  3 21:08:21 video kernel: ivtv: DMA DEC Buffers:
> Aug  3 21:08:21 video kernel:  0x3bd20000:0x0149fb00:0x80010000
> Aug  3 21:08:21 video kernel: ivtv: DMA ENC Buffers:
> Aug  3 21:08:21 video kernel:  0x0011fadc:0x3cbdc000:0x80004000

These look like ivtv driver debug messages. Either turn off debugging
if it is turned on (in /etc/modprobe.conf), or revert to an earlier
version of the ivtv driver if possible and see if this stops the
problem.

Nick


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