From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750867AbVHKOL7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:11:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750941AbVHKOL7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:11:59 -0400 Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.40]:3295 "EHLO vms040pub.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750867AbVHKOL6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:11:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:51:00 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please.. In-reply-to: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <200508111051.01067.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Organization: None, usuallly detectable by casual observers MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <20050811064217.GB21395@titan.lahn.de> User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 11 August 2005 08:37, hunold@linuxtv.org wrote: >Hello Philipp, > >> I got the following OOPS from running "alevtd -F -d -v /dev/vbi0" >> with my Siemens-DVB-C on a Dual-i686-600. I'm able to reproduce >> this even running a 2.6.12-rc6 without the nvidia module tainting >> the kernel. > >So you're using the analog tuner of the card to watch analog cable > tv and want to decode teletext from the vbi, right? Yes, and I can also report that teletext decoding has ceased to work here. But I'm not sure what kernel version killed it. Currently running 2.6.13-rc6. But my card is cx88 based, a pcHDTV-3000. But attempting to switch it on/off doesn't seem to generate any output indicating it failed, it just Doesn't Work(TM) >Can you tell me the last kernel version that worked for you? > >> ... >> kernel BUG at drivers/media/common/saa7146_video.c:741! > >739 fmt = format_by_fourcc(dev,fh->video_fmt.pixelformat); >740 /* we need to have a valid format set here */ >741 BUG_ON(NULL == fmt); > >This sanity check is failing. Apparently the software managed >to select a pixelformat that cannot be translated to a "saa7146 > format". > >Puh, I wrote this long ago. ;-) IIRC this should not be possible > (ie. the driver should reject the unknown pixelformat in the > configuring stage). > >Did you update the alevt package? Perhaps it's now doing this > differently and it would fail with older kernels as well, which > have worked before. > >We will probably have to debug this on a very low level. > >Regards >Michael. > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.