Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

[James Bruce <bruce@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Thanks for the hints.  Unfortunately the cards in question really are 
fairly generic and thus don't appear in the list.  I tried the first 75 
cards as insmod options (using a script of course), and some of them are 
different, but none work properly.

I am lucky in that I still have a spare.  If you could suggest a very 
well tested kernel for bttv (2.6.9?), I can set up another machine with 
that kernel and the remaining card.  That should allow me to isolate the 
problem better.  At the very least  I could get the right card= option 
to use for the broken pair.  Hopefully I will be able to generate a 
table entry for this card for bttv-cards.c;  I'll look some more at this 
tomorrow.

I've heard that there is some way to dump eeproms; Is there a way to 
write them also?  If I could copy the eeprom from the unused cards to 
the (now broken) pair that might fix things.

Thanks,
   Jim

Gerd Knorr wrote:
> James Bruce <bruce@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> 
>>Well, are there any theories as to why it would work flawlessly, then
>>after a hard lockup (due to what I think is a buggy V4L2 application),
>>that the cards no longer work?
> 
> No idea why the eeprom doesn't respond any more.  Maybe it's really
> broken.  Note that the eeprom is read only at insmod time (and even
> that for some cards only), thus there isn't a clear connection between
> the crash and the eeprom issue.  It could have died earlied unnoticed.
> 
> The eeprom holds the PCI Subsystem ID, so without a working eeprom
> bttv can't figure automatically what exact card that is (see the
> "unknown/default" card name in the log) and maybe thats why does not
> work any more for the card in question.  Thats should be easily
> fixable using the card= insmod option.
> 
>   Gerd