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Spidey
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 Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 1:43 am Post subject: Yet Another Video Capture Card Topic - Kernel booting crash! |
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Hi all!
Let's get started in this "yet another" series topic.
I've got a Pixelview PlayTV Pro Ultra card, bundled with a cx23880 chip
I've searched a lot in the forums and in other linux sites, I even tried to search in google, but it returned many sites from my country (where this cards are really common) usually teaching how to install and troubleshoot some problems in WINDOWS.
hey, that's not what I'm looking for, right? I've managed to get the command line arguments that have to be specified in the command-line (that make REAL sense,  ) with modprobe, for the card to be recognized and accessed correctly, but I couldn't get ANY output yet.
In windows this same card gave me a real pain in the ass with system crashes and such, I'm really worried with this card exploding at my face.
So let's me expose you the facts:
1- compiled kernel with v4l support, as well as dvb support. I guess it's all right, but I'd really appreciate if someone could tell me EXACTLY witch modules I need and, if possible, tell me how to pass the arguments in the kernel boot command at GRUB, since I prefer kernel built-in modules instead of loadable modules.
2- kernel CRASHES and FREEZES my computer while loading cx88xx module. This is early in the boot process, I can't press 'I' (for interactive mode) to cancel it, it seems it's udev that's preloading the module (maybe just making it available for modprobe)
The question is:
What modules should I check in the kernel configuration (a brief explanation of what is what would be thankful) and how to load then?
I guess this topic is going to be a troubleshooting one, btw. Hope you all don't mind.
Aaaaaah. Just remembered. Do I need to activate Xorg module V4L in xorg.conf? |
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msalerno
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:06 am Post subject: |
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oof, I can only offer a little help, but I would start by needing to see the output of
lspci -v
From sys-apps/pciutils |
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Spidey
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:11 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, my mistake.
I'll post here my lspci, lsmod and dmesg tonight (in 11 hours).
Now i'm in a hurry |
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Spidey
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:28 am Post subject: |
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Hi, I'm back.
here is my box outputs:
| Code: | SpideyHomePC spidey # lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV41 [GeForce 6800 GS] (rev a2)
05:06.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 536EP Data Fax Modem
05:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05) |
my lsmod with the old kernel, the one that boots
| Code: | SpideyHomePC spidey # lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_seq 43312 0
fuse 38420 4
nvidia 6825108 22
snd_intel8x0 28316 3
snd_ac97_codec 94628 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 2048 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 65416 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 17668 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 38008 9 snd_seq,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 7816 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm |
Didn't see any useful information in dmesg, so I'm not posting it. I'm going to boot in the new kernel re-compiled with new options right now, if I'm successful I'll post the new lsmod and dmesg. |
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