Re: kdetv hangs system

On Thursday 09 November 2006 13:16, Tomasz Samotyjak, IEn O/Gda=F1sk wrote:
> At beggining I'd like thank all programmers for writing kdetv. Great
> work. I've got one strange problem. All works fine. But on full screen
> mode kdetv hangs the system. It appears after several minutes of full
> screen mode working. The same situation is every time, when I'm using
> full screen mode. On other modes it's OK.
>
> Hardware: TV card Leadtek Winfast 2000XP (cxx8000), linux Fedora Core 6
> (distribution kernel), graphic card Ati Radeon 9200 Pro (only xorg ati
> driver, no fglrx).

I have a similar setup, but it runs without crashes. (Leadtek Winfast =

2000XP, but bt878, Debian testing with 2.6.15, Ati Radeon 9200 with xorg =

ati driver).

Which video plugin are you using in kdetv?
And what is your experience with other tv apps, eg. xawtv?

I just remembered that I had similar freezes a 4 years ago (with a =

completely different hardware, but same tv card), when it usually happened =

when watching tv and doing some intensive disc operations. It turned out =

that the problem was with collisions on the DMA bus.
Here is the old thread detailing the problem and the solution:
http://www.mail-archive.com/video4linux-list%40listman.redhat.com/msg05298.=
html
You might want to try to set the latency to a low value on your tv card and =

try that.
Of course this might not be related at all.

Regards,
Zsolt