Both vanilla-sources-2.6.15_rc1 & rc2 show a blue screen (ie no tv) when using tvtime - sound works ok, after re-emerging version 2.6.14 or 2.6.14.2, tv works OK again. tvtime errors seen ad infinitum ... videoinput: Can't read frame. Error was: Invalid argument (0). videoinput: Can't free frame 0: Bad address videoinput: Can't free frame 1: Bad address videoinput: Can't free frame 2: Bad address videoinput: Can't free frame 3: Bad address ... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.upgrade from vanilla-sources.2.6.14 or 2.6.14.2, to 2.6.15_rc1 or rc2 2.run tvtime with tv input selected 3. Actual Results: blue screen instead of tv picture, and tvtime console errors ad infinitum: ... videoinput: Can't read frame. Error was: Invalid argument (0). videoinput: Can't free frame 0: Bad address videoinput: Can't free frame 1: Bad address videoinput: Can't free frame 2: Bad address videoinput: Can't free frame 3: Bad address ... Expected Results: to see a tv picture.. returning to 2.6.14 or 2.6.14.2 solves the problem. part of lsmod: ... tda9887 14352 0 tuner 42532 0 saa7134 107480 0 video_buf 16900 1 saa7134 ir_kbd_i2c 6668 1 saa7134 ir_common 8196 2 saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c <<<< new i2c_i801 7692 0 eeprom 5520 0 i2c_dev 7680 0 i2c_core 16656 8 tda9887,tuner,saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c,i2c_i801,eeprom,i2c_dev,asb100 ... p4pe ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-rc2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-rc2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre10 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/mnt/hdb9/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.no/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/mnt/hdb9/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/mnt/hdb9/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib alsa apm arts audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl directfb dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat faad fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb gd gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk2 idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg kde lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww live lm_sensors mad matroska mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg nas ncurses network nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline real rtc sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.kernel.org for this, and post the new bug URL here. Make sure that you point out that the problem started in 2.6.15-rc1, did not exist in 2.6.14, and continues to exist in -rc2.
Bug 5667 at http://bugzilla.kernel.org
fixed upstream