--- On Sat, 7/7/12, Antti Palosaari <crope@xxxxxx> wrote: <snipped> > > I also have quite a few : > > > > [224773.229293] DVB: adapter 0 frontend 0 frequency 2 > out of range (174000000..862000000) > > > > This seems to come from running w_scan. > > yes, those warnings are coming when application request > illegal frequency. Setting frequency as a 2 Hz is something > totally wrong, wild guess, it is some other value set > accidentally as frequency. I am thinking either w_scan is doing something it should not, in which case we should inform its author to have this looked at, or the message does not need to be there? > > The kernel seems happy while having the device > physically pulled out. But the kernel module does not like > to be unloaded (modprobe -r) while mplayer is running, so we > need to fix that. > > Yep, seems to refuse unload. I suspect it is refused since > there is ongoing USB transmission as it streams video. But > should we allow that? And is removing open device nodes OK > as applications holds those? I am thinking about suspend/resume, the poorman's way, which is to unload/reload. One interesting thing to try would be to pause but not quit the application - either just press pause, or say, 'gdb <mplayerbinary> <pid>', and see if 'modprobe -r' can be made to work under that sort of condition, if it isn't already. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html