[linux-dvb] Re: av7110_loadkeys and ARM crashes

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

Hi,

Andreas Mair wrote:
> On Monday 31 March 2003 14:16, Oliver Endriss wrote:
> > Andreas Mair wrote:
> > > I'm using the IR receiver of my DVB-S v2.1 Hauppauge card with
> > > DVB v1.00pre2 drivers and vdr v1.1.26 with remote-plugin.
> > > This weekend I noticed some ARM crashes. After that I couldn't
> > > control vdr any longer. I loaded the keys again and and I had my
> > > RC control back. I think this behaviour is bad, just think of
> > > those people who don't have a keyboard at their DVB box...
> >
> > It's true that the control word of the IR is not restored after an
> > ARM crash (see Holger's answer), but I think that's not your
> > problem...
> >
> > After an ARM crash vdr *always* unloads and reloads the driver.
> > Make sure that you load the keymap after each 'make insmod' in your
> > 'runvdr'. ('make insmod' occurres at two places.) Best place for
> > loading the keymap is at the beginning of the while loop.
> > Take a look at my sample script:
> > http://endriss.escape.bei.t-online.de/vdr/misc/runvdr.remote
>
> I already load the keymap after insmod and before running vdr.
> If I get you right, you say vdr exits on an ARM crash and then the
> underlying runvdr script reloads the driver and restarts vdr?

Exactly. At least it does for me :-)

> Well, I believe I wouldn't have had the problem then, on the other
> hand I'm quite sure that vdr didn't restart, because I remember that
> I was watching a VCD the first time and a vdr recording the second
> time. And believe me, I would have noticed if vdr would have
> restarted ;-)

Hmm, in my system vdr never survived an arm crash: 
'watchdog timer expired' -> vdr exits -> runvdr unloads and restarts the 
driver. Did you set the watchdog timeout?

Oliver


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