Hi! I have big trouble with my SkyStar 2 (2.6C) Card: When I record something with vdr, I just ended up with many zero-sized XXX.vdr files, as vdr exits with an error and gets immediately restarted, just to abort again. In the vdrportal.de Forum I read that this is due to the automatic demod shutdown of the card, so I changed the vdr script in a way that the module is unloaded and reloaded after every vdr abort. But this regularly hangs the whole Computer, no Magic SysReq works, I have to hit the reset button. Sometimes it records small portions of video (10-15 min). Actually, the computer froze again while writing this message (vdr resumed the recording after reboot, luckily my MUA saved a backup) I heard there was something like a "SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT" Module option, but modinfo doesn't report it (according to the people in the vdr-portal.de forum, it doesn't solve the problem anyway). So, is there a way to keep the card "alive" w/o reloading the module? If not, is there a trick to reload the modules many times w/o hanging the computer? I already tried to move the card to another PCI slot, this didn't work. As I have an extra fan to cool the card, I rule out thermal problems, too. Info from /proc/interrupts: CPU0 CPU1 0: 639901 19 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 3754 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 4 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 12: 8316 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 10008 1 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 4975 1 IO-APIC-edge ide1 16: 3278 1 IO-APIC-level sym53c8xx, Skystar2 17: 6448 1 IO-APIC-level eth0, eth2, eth3, eth1 18: 18983 0 IO-APIC-level fcpci NMI: 0 0 LOC: 639889 643605 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 BTW: Are the DVB drivers SMP-safe? Kernel: 2.6.9-rc3 with kernel dvb (I had the same problem with 2.6.7+dvb-kernel CVS from ca. 2 weeks ago, as well as with 2.6.8.1). The card worked flawlessly before with 2.6.7 and a much older CVS version, but I don't remember the date for cvs -D :-( Attached, there is the output from lspci. I'm sorry I can't give you logs from just before the lockup, as no HD buffers are flushed. Thanks for any hints.. Ciao Martin
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