Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 02:24 +0200, Oliver Endriss wrote: > > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > > I am unfortunately 100% sure that it is caused by the saa7146 driver, as > > > I have an uptime of over a week now that it is not loaded (but the card > > > is still in the slot, yeah and I did memory tests for 18 passes - > > > nothing). > > > > Could you please try the patch posted in > > http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-October/021042.html > > > > and report whether it fixes your problem? > > Hmmhh, reading what it changes > > "Two fixes for the 'saa7146_wait_for_debi_done' code: > (a) Timeout did not work when the routine was called with interrupts > disabled. > (b) Reduce PCI I/O load caused by saa7146_wait_for_debi_done. > Seems to be very important on fast machines!" > > I am not sure why this could fix the problems I am seeing. I can give it > a try if you are quite confident that it could help High load on the PCI bus might trigger a bug somewhere else. Btw, I'm not aware of any reports that the saa7146 driver caused memory corruption or something like that. > , but I get > > - gcc compile failures > - filesystem corruptions > - database corruptions Hm. Very often these symptoms are caused by broken hardware. > when the card's driver is loaded and is in use for a few days (and then > finally a hang/crash+reboot). I have the *feeling* that the situation > improved slightly by improving reception via F-connectors, so I thing > there is some kind of buffer overflow or so occurring... > > Anyway thanks for your work, I will happily try it if you think it may > fix this problem. I would try. ;-) CU Oliver -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- VDR Remote Plugin 0.4.0: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
