Re: bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1

[Prasanna P Subash <psubash@turbolinux.com>]

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I have experienced similar issues with 2.4.0 and its test. I have a bttv848 chipset.
I even tried compiling in kdb as a part of the kernel to see if it oopses, but no luck.

I will try trying 0.7.47 today.

this works on 2.2.16, last time i tried.

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:53:11PM -0500, John Jasen wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Matthew Gabeler-Lee wrote:
> 
> > These errors all occur in the same way (as near as I can tell) in
> > kernels 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, using bttv drivers 0.7.50 (incl. w/ kernel),
> > 0.7.53, and 0.7.55.
> >
> > I am currently using 2.4.0-test10 with bttv 0.7.47, which works fine.
> >
> > I have sent all this info to Gerd Knorr but, as far as I know, he hasn't
> > been able to track down the bug yet.  I thought that by posting here,
> > more eyes might at least make more reports of similar situations that
> > might help track down the problem.
> 
> Try flipping the card into a different slot. A lot of the cards
> exceptionally do not like IRQ/DMA sharing, and a lot of the motherboards
> share them between different slots.
> 
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