Re: bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de)
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:41:45 +0100


> > > I have sent all this info to Gerd Knorr but, as far as I know, he hasn't
> > > been able to track down the bug yet. I thought that by posting here,
> > > more eyes might at least make more reports of similar situations that
> > > might help track down the problem.
> >
> > Try flipping the card into a different slot. A lot of the cards
> > exceptionally do not like IRQ/DMA sharing, and a lot of the motherboards
> > share them between different slots.
>
> I will try this, but my card has (and does) worked with irq sharing for
> a long time. Its entry in /proc/interrupts:
> 9: 164935 165896 IO-APIC-level acpi, bttv
^^^^
What happens with acpi disabled? The power-down at boot could be caused by
the acpi power management maybe ...

Gerd

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