On 5/28/07, ben handley <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry if I wasn't clear enough -- I'll try to be more precise here. > > When I use an smp-enabled kernel, I can use kaffeine, mplayer, or > mythtv and they all receive and record just fine for 15-30 minutes. > After that the picture looks like the reception is terrible -- mostly > green, sometimes with pieces of image around the edges and a few small > squares of non-green (maybe signal, maybe noise, hard to tell) through > the middle. The audio is similarly messed up, and the EPG doesn't seem > to download correctly either. The changeover is sudden, but doesn't > seem to happen after a fixed amount of time -- it's usually about > 15-30 minutes. If I record programs in this state the recording looks > exactly the same as the above description. If I play old files > everything is fine, it is only receiving that has problems. Restarting > the X server has no effect. Switching to another player has no effect. > The light on the usb stick stays solid green, ie receiving the signal > fine. It's not flashing as it does when reception is bad. > > Scanning for channels works partially: it picks up one frequency with > 4 channels, but none of the other frequencies that it found when in a > working state. It can still tune to the previously set channels, even > though it can't detect them, although of course the reception is > terrible. > > Unplugging the device, unloading the module, replugging, and reloading > has no effect. Killing the X server and restarting has no effect -- > after both those I still have exactly the same reception issue I > described above. > > I took a shot of the contents of the movie via xine -- you can get it > from http://steelgarden.com/badreception.png > The shot was taken from a saved file that I replayed after rebooting > with an non-smp kernel. > > I have also put my kernel .config file up at > http://steelgarden.com/.config in case there's something relevant in > there. Could it be a problem that I compiled the kernel with the dvb > drivers as module, and then replaced the .ko files? Should I recompile > with no hint of dvb in the kernel itself? > > I hope this is specific enough. If there's any other information I can > provide please tell me. > can you attach a dmesg logfile after plugging in the device, and after replugging the device after around ~20 minutes when the error occured (maybe also xorg log might help)? Markus _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
