Archive for the ‘IVTV’ Category

IVTV DMA error fix? Patch from Author

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Hans Verkuil, the developer behind ivtv, thinks that he may have found the source of the DMA problems that some have been experiencing. From the mailing list:
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Solution to IVTV drivers: ivtv0 warning: ENC: (0) DMA Error 0×0000000b ?

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Update: The author of IVTV has just released a patch that may resolve these problems once and for all

I think that I may have found a solution to this problem. The problem is detailed in this post. I made 3 recent changes to my system, and I am not sure which has led to everything working. (I made some other changes that I will not detail here at the moment; however, they did not resolve the problem. These are the only large changes that I have made in the past week.) The system has only been up for 7 hours 30 minutes with these changes; however, it has been rock solid. (more…)

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IVTV drivers: ivtv0 warning: ENC: (0) DMA Error 0×0000000b

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

Update: I have posted what may be a potential fix for this problem. Please see this post.

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I have posted some information here:

http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/ticket/48

I am putting this up because I’d like to allow anyone from the IVTV bug posting to contact me.

The problem is that after a period of time my capture cards stop capturing. When I check the output of dmesg I am greeted with many ivtv0 warning: ENC: (0) DMA Error 0×0000000b messages. (more…)

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