PVR250 hanging

[Randy Pratt]

pOn Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:41:36 +1030
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 22 November 2006 at 16:51:41 -0500, Randy Pratt wrote:
> 
> You'll probably get more response if you send this to -questions.

Perhaps I'll try that next if necessary but it seems most of the video
people hang around -multimedia.  

> > I've been trying to get my PVR250 card working using
> > FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE (sources from about a week ago) but I've ran
> > into some difficulties.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > I did notice this in the output of "ps" after ctrl-c the test:
> >
> > # ps -auxww | grep cxm
> > USER     PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
> > root     826  0.0  0.0     0     8  ??  WL    4:33PM   0:00.00 [irq19: cxm0]
> 
> I don't see anything obvious there; do you?

No, but I was digging for any/all information I could find.

> > I've had several freezes/hangs where the system is unresponsive and
> > keyboard won't accept input forcing a power recycling and fsck.
> 
> This seems more than just cxm, then.
> 
> In general, if you're seeing this kind of behaviour, the output of
> 'ps l' is of interest.  The WMCHAN field gives information about where
> (and maybe how) the process is waiting.

# ps -auxwwl | grep cxm
root    1156  0.7  0.1  1280   664  p1  S+    5:24PM   0:00.30 cat /dev/cxm0        0   821   0   0  0 cmxrd 
root     826  0.0  0.0     0     8  ??  WL    4:33PM   0:00.03 [irq19: cxm0]        0     0   0 -60  0 -     

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> When I get access to our PVR 250 later today, I'll compare some of
> your other data.

Great!  I'd appreciate anything you can look at.  I'm also willing to
do any sort of patching/testing if needed.  The box isn't anything
critical.

I was going to try the multimedia/pvrxxx port but it seems to be
broken ATM.

Thanks for the response!

Randy

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