[linux-dvb] Re: av7110_loadkeys and ARM crashes

[Andreas Mair <Andreas@linogate.com>]

Hi,

On Monday 31 March 2003 18:05, Oliver Endriss wrote:
> 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?

Sure, I also had situations where vdr has been restarted because of the 
expired watchdog, but not this weekend...

Regards,
Andreas



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