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Bug 131136

Summary: nvidia-kernel/nvidia-glx 1.0.8756: System instability with v4l
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Don van der Haghen <d.vanderhaghen>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status: VERIFIED TEST-REQUEST    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2005.1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Don van der Haghen 2006-04-24 13:00:54 UTC
Using nvidia-kernel/nvidia-glx 1.0.8756 in combination with v4l2/bttv causes the tv tuner stop working and leads to system instability.
It causes applications to randomly crash after a few minutes after starting or moving the xawtv window. It looks like it's caused by memory corruption.

No error messages are being showed other than applications suddenly segfaulting/etc. Later on, random parts of the kernel die untill the system is rendered unusable.

After downgrading to nvidia-kernel/nvidia-glx 1.0.8178-r3 everything works flawlessly again.
I have tested this with both kernel 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 (gentoo-sources) with xorg-x11 6.8.2-r6.

I have added the following lines in /etc/portage/package.mask as a workaround (and emerged nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel again):
--
>media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3
>media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8178-r1
--

bttv output (might be tvcard specific):
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:0e.0, irq: 20, latency: 32, mmio: 0xef000000
bttv0: detected: Pinnacle PCTV [bswap] [card=39], PCI subsystem ID is bd11:1200
bttv0: using: Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Rave [card=39,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ff43df [init]
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
bttv0: miro: id=16 tuner=1 radio=fmtuner stereo=yes
bttv0: using tuner=1
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-11-09 02:33:36 UTC
Please, test w/ recent x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers versions. Thanks.
Comment 2 Don van der Haghen 2006-11-09 03:42:07 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Please, test w/ recent x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers versions. Thanks.
> 

I'm using Xorg 7.0.0 with Nvidia drivers 1.0-8762 and tvtime (with v4l2/bttv, kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r4) now.
This combination works very well.