PVR250 hanging

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday, 29 November 2006 at  5:36:15 -0500, Randy Pratt wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:04:46 +1030
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> Sorry for the slow response; I wanted to check with our machine, and
>> it was needed for other things.
>>
>> On Wednesday, 22 November 2006 at 17:30:35 -0500, Randy Pratt wrote:
>>> On 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:
>>>
>>> # 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 -
>>
>> OK, this looks pretty much like lack of input.  cat is waiting for the
>> completion of a read operation.
>
> It probably relates to this from /var/log/messages:
>
> 	kernel: cxm0: missing encoder EOS

Possibly.  I'm getting the impression that this driver isn't very
tolerant of exceptional conditions.  We've found that it won't work
after a warm reboot, for example: you need to power off and power on
again.

> I am beginning to suspect the hardware combinations/settings on that
> particular box since moving the card to another box works as
> expected.

OK.  It would be nice to know what is different.

Greg
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