saa7134 card image loop

[georgengm]

Hello,

I have a 8 port saa7134 card. The card has no EEPROM present, so i tried to load the kernel module this way:

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modprobe saa7134 card=33,33,33,33,33,33,33,33

I compiled ZoneMinder 1.24.4 on an up-to-date Arch Linux.
Everything works fine. ZoneMinder records input from all of the 8 ports.
After some time (a few hours), some of the ports enter in an endless loop state. The last 3-4 seconds of the "live" stream are repeated over and over again. If I restart ZoneMinder, the image from those ports is black (other ports are OK) and remains black until I reboot.

I compiled Zoneminder with --enable-mmap=no and --enable-mmap=yes. The problem is the same in both cases.

Yesterday I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.38 to 2.6.39. The problem is the same with both kernels.

Thank you!

[mastertheknife]

Hi,

This sounds like a driver problem or an overheating issue.
Can you try a different program to watch these bad ports, e.g. xawtv and see if the issue comes up there too?

Also, mmap doesn't have anything to do with this, and you probably want mmap enabled because it doesn't require any extra configuration, unlike shared memory.

mastertheknife

[georgengm]

I think it's a driver problem, too.
The system is in a remote location and I cannot reboot it that easy if it hangs, so I'm afraid of trying different modprobe card=... values.

I'll try with a different program to see what happens.

Any ideas of what else can I try?

Thank you!

[gblanco]

I have this problem too !!!!!

[gblanco]

My board is:

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/8-channel- ... card-16579

After while one or two channel get lost ....