Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:47 +0200, Oliver Endriss wrote: > > 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. > > Well it could be a bug in the asus p7131 firmware and the card just > randomly doing weird things... and if this can be seen only after a few > days of vdr/continuous use not many people may be affected and you may > just not get reports. > > > > , but I get > > > > > > - gcc compile failures > > > - filesystem corruptions > > > - database corruptions > > > > Hm. Very often these symptoms are caused by broken hardware. > > I know. But as this machine has uptimes of months without this card > (even with several pci slots in use and worked for long long times with > very different cards in these slots) and it does not work when I just > use the card instead of a win-tv or so I am sure that it is the the asus > card which is not working correctly. > > Anyway I am now replacing that card with a tt-1500-t lets see whether > strange things will happen or not. > > > > 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. ;-) > > Well :-) If the tt-1500 turns out to work OK I can just once give the > asus + your isolated patch a last chance before trashing it... Wait! Please clarify whether you think that your problem is caused by the _saa7134_ driver or the _saa7146_ driver. You wrote 'that <memory corruption> is caused by the saa7146 driver,' Is this a typo? Did you mean saa7134? (My patch is pointless if you do not run a saa7146-based card.) 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
