Hi, Phil, Phil Wyett wrote: > On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 10:26 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Phil Wyett wrote: >> > On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 09:20 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >> Now, this is one we have an issue with: it's got a bttv card, and >> >> motion running on it. It's a Dell PE R720. For some reason, it has >> >> never liked the card: 20 min after reboot, it says fatal bus >> >> error... but nothing's wrong, and it runs just fine. Well, except >> >> that we need to keep it on the 2.6.32-431.20.3 kernel, >> >> because *everything* later, it randomly starts rebooting, several >> >> times a day. >> <snip> >> > >> > What is the make/model of the card? >> lspci says: >> Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) Let me add to that: lspci -s <loc> -vv gives me this 05:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) Subsystem: iTuner Spectra8 CardA Input0 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 32 (4000ns min, 10000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 40 Region 0: Memory at d92f8000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data No end tag found Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Kernel driver in use: bttv Kernel modules: bttv >> > >> > Are you supplying options when loading the bttv module? >> >> On and off, I've been googling to find if there's something I can tell >> it, >> or the kernel on boot. Currently, I have, in /etc/modprobe.d/bttv: >> options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 >> options bttv gbuffers=16 card=98,98,98,98,98,98,98,98 >> radio=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 tuner=4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2 >> full_luma_range=1 coring=1 <snip> > > The options line 1 is used widely and only worth changing if all else > fails. Ok, thanks. > > The second options line option of combfilter by docs indicate there is > no 2 option and is enabled by default, so you can remove that option to > test. > > I would enable two possible compatibility options and see if that helps. > > triton1=0/1 - for Triton1 (+others) compatibility. > > vsfx=0/1 - yet another chipset bug compatibility bit > > The triton1 insmod option sets the EN_TBFX bit in the control register. > The vsfx insmod option does the same for EN_VSFX bit. If you have > stability problems you can try if one of these options makes your box > work solid. > > Source: http://xawdecode.sourceforge.net/aideUS/htmlpage/BTTV-param.htm Thanks very much. I'll try those as I have the chance; unfortunately, it's not something I can do frequently, as the server's in use, and exporting project directories to users... oh, and it is actually running motion for surveillance of the room... mark