[ivtv-users] Insertion erros when installing cx18

[daryl]

I have enclosed attachments of dmesg and var/log/messages files.


Andy Walls wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 22:05 -0400, daryl wrote:
>   
>> Andy Walls wrote:
>>  > Daryl,
>>
>> First, I want to apologize for dumping all of this on you. Its such a 
>> lot that I feel guilty.
>>     
>
> No, big deal.  This particular problem (PCI mmio access errors to the
> CX23418) has dogged me for a few months.  I thought I had it fixed for
> good with driver version 1.0.1.  I guess it'll just be my White
> Whale... :)
>
>
>   
>>  > OK, you have obvious PCI bus communications problems.  The CX23418 could
>>  > be the cause or something else in your system could be the cause.
>>  > Recent experience leads me to believe it's likely the CX23418.
>>     
>
>
> OK.  Let's forget the big list of things to do.  Your vmalloc
> allocations looked fine, so let's do this:
>
>
> 1.  Blacklist the cx18 driver if you can, so that it doesn't
> automatically load on boot.  (On Fedora it means adding an entry
> in /etc/modporbe.d/blacklist.)
>
> 2. Reboot and execute the following commands:
>
> $ sudo modprobe -r cx18
> $ sudo modprobe cx18 debug=67 retry_mmio=1 enc_mpg_buffers=1 enc_ts_buffers=0 enc_vbi_buffers=0 enc_yuv_buffers=0 enc_pcm_buffers=0
>
> 3a. If the driver appears to load OK do this
>
> $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --log-status
>
> 3b. If it does not load OK, do this
>
> $ sudo modprobe -r cx18
>
>
> 4. Send all output cx18 related out logged to dmesg
> (or /var/log/messages)
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>
>
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