Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:41:36 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PVR250 hanging Message-ID: <20061122221136.GM29833@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20061122165141.62427953.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> References: <20061122165141.62427953.bsd-unix@earthlink.net>
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--EE8jvUPYYQjJtG7J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 22 November 2006 at 16:51:41 -0500, Randy Pratt wrote: You'll probably get more response if you send this to -questions. > I've been trying to get my PVR250 card working using > FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE (sources from about a week ago) but I've ran > into some difficulties. > > ... > > I did notice this in the output of "ps" after ctrl-c the test: > > # ps -auxww | grep cxm > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > root 826 0.0 0.0 0 8 ?? WL 4:33PM 0:00.00 [irq19: cxm0] I don't see anything obvious there; do you? > I've had several freezes/hangs where the system is unresponsive and > keyboard won't accept input forcing a power recycling and fsck. This seems more than just cxm, then. In general, if you're seeing this kind of behaviour, the output of 'ps l' is of interest. The WMCHAN field gives information about where (and maybe how) the process is waiting. When I get access to our PVR 250 later today, I'll compare some of your other data. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --EE8jvUPYYQjJtG7J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFZMsYIubykFB6QiMRApLvAJ9JW/sRMoUblAyCGm7ERXFF/8nyIQCgqt6N ac/kf5PO/iNEYrkC7GQ3VdQ= =XtTb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EE8jvUPYYQjJtG7J--
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