From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.43]:36390 "EHLO mail-in-03.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753122Ab0DVCPM (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:15:12 -0400 Subject: Re: Issue loading SAA7134 module From: hermann pitton To: Donald Bailey Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4BCF2636.4010803@apple2pl.us> References: <4BCF2636.4010803@apple2pl.us> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:57:31 +0200 Message-Id: <1271901451.3198.59.camel@pc07.localdom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am Mittwoch, den 21.04.2010, 13:22 -0300 schrieb Donald Bailey: > I've got a couple of boxes that have two no-name 8-chip SAA713X cards. > Both have the same issue: the kernel will only set up the first eight on > one board and only two on the second. It leaves the other six unusable > with error -23. I am unable to figure out what that means. > > Sample dmesg as follows. More (/proc/ioports, /proc/interrupts, etc) > can be posted if requested. Tried kernels 2.6.18 and 2.6.33.2 on CentOS > 5.4 and Fedora 11 fully updated. The module is loaded as card=0. The > following is output for chips 11 through 16. > > saa7130[10]: subsystem: 1131:0000, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC > [card=0,autodetected] > saa7130[10]: board init: gpio is 10000 > saa7130[10]: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-5)? > saa7130[10]: can't register video device > saa7134: probe of 0000:05:0f.0 failed with error -23 > Due to some unknown bug we have ;), it likely works only perfectly with unidentified devices with more than 128 saa713x chips in a single PCI slot. Read on the wiki, about how to add a new device, and feel free to improve it. China is going totally mad. (or is it from somewhere else?) Cheers, Hermann