[AG-TECH] RHFC2, CX88xx driver, vic problem

[Natalia Costas Lago]

Hi,

Time ago we bought some Win TV go cards with the brand new chip that needed 
the CX88xx driver. At the end I gave up and replaced the cards by some 
typical BT878 chip ones (I was able to get them to work with xawtv but not 
with VIC).

I've heard about more people having the same problem.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Many Ayromlou" <mayromlo at ryerson.ca>
To: <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
Cc: <mayromlo at ryerson.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:24 PM
Subject: [AG-TECH] RHFC2, CX88xx driver, vic problem


> Hi All,
>
> Just installing AG2.3 on a linux box and am having a bunch of trouble. I'm 
> using AGTK2.3 rpms for RHFC2 from 
> http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~grangenet/ag_fedora/ everything went fine. I've 
> also gone ahead and upgraded all the software on RH install (man there was 
> like 150 of those suckers.....). Right now I have a uptodate RHFC2 install 
> with AGTK2.3 installed. Venueclient works fine (imported cert and 
> everything).
>
> The problem is Vic (I extracted it from /etc/Accessgrid/..... path and am 
> running it from command line). It works fine when I run it or transmit X11 
> stuff but as soon as I choose one of the video devices and transmit the 
> options menu locks up (well the whole app locks up).
>
> Now I looked around a bit and latest version of xawtv (which I downloaded 
> and compiled) works flawlessly with all 4 video devices (they are cx88xx 
> chips.....atleast from lsmod output).
>
> Now debug wise I straced the process (strace -p <processid>) and this is 
> what I got. Does any of this make sense....:
>
> fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) 
> = 0xb7dbc000
> write(1, "Got pict, palette=4\n", 20)   = 20
> ioctl(9, SONYPI_IOCGBATFLAGS or VIDIOCSPICT, 0x84b8b3c) = 0
> ioctl(9, VIDIOCGPICT, 0x84b8b3c)        = 0
> write(1, "Got pict again, palette=4\n", 26) = 26
> ioctl(9, EXT2_IOC_SETVERSION or SONYPI_IOCGBAT1CAP or VIDIOCGCHAN, 
> 0xbfffd280) = 0
> ioctl(9, SONYPI_IOCGBAT1REM or VIDIOCSCHAN, 0xbfffd280) = 0
> brk(0)                                  = 0x84d0000
> brk(0x84f4000)                          = 0x84f4000
> ioctl(9, VIDIOCMCAPTURE, 0x84b8b78)     = 0
> ioctl(9, VIDIOCMCAPTURE, 0x84b8b88)     = 0
> gettimeofday({1105393718, 122990}, NULL) = 0
> ioctl(9, VIDIOCSYNC, 0x81f0ee0)         = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
> --- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) ---
> gettimeofday({1105393723, 595281}, NULL) = 0
> send(7, "\200\311\0\1A\357\1s\201\313\0\1A\357\1s", 16, 0) = 16
> gettimeofday({1105393723, 595571}, NULL) = 0
> munmap(0xb7dbc000, 4096)                = 0
> exit_group(0)                           = ?
> Process 2906 detached
>
>
> So anyways....totally lost right now....about to go down to FC1 just to 
> get kernel 2.4.....what a mess :-)
>
> TTYL
> Many
>