[mythtv-users] Strange Ceton issues.

[Erik Jensen]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Scott Stancil <hoverduck at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've finally resolved my issues with the Ceton (mostly).  I finally started
> throwing some debug lines in the driver code and narrowed it down to the one
> line that was misbehaving:
>
>  vbuffer->dma_addrs[write_page_index] = pci_map_page( dev->pdev,
>                   vbuffer->pages[write_page_index], 0, PAGE_SIZE,
> PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
> After pointing that out to Ceton support, they suggested I artificially
> restrict my memory in grub, and we determined that putting mem=3g into my
> grub config file fixed it.  They have 64-bit DMA support in the works, but
> no idea when it'll be available, so I guess I'm stuck with this workaround
> for now (unless anyone else out there has a better suggestion).  I'm just
> happy to finally get this thing up and running.
> Scott

Huh, well what do you know? That seems to have successfully band-aided
(yes, I did just verb that :) ) my issue as well. Thanks for the info.

--Erik Jensen