[pvrusb2] pvrusb2 and Fedora 11 - Audio cut after sometime of capturing

[Roger J. Allen]

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, JE Geiger wrote:

> I had several unexplained errors when using pvrusb2 with Fedora 11.
>
> Mike Isely assisted me in debugging to the point that it was determined by
> me (not by Mike, he did not express an opinion) that it was some strange
> problem with the version of the gcc compiler, udev package or possibly one
> of the binary library objects with Fedora 11.  Using F11 and AMD or Intel, I
> could not get the driver to work.  Also, turning on debugging flag bits
> caused it to crash the kernel requiring a machine reboot.  Mike could not
> duplicate my problems.
>
> After much "try this and then trying that" to no avail, I downgraded to
> Fedora 10 from Fedora 11 with a complete hard drive reformat.
>
> After that, no problems with pvrusb2 or mythtv.  My machine is still at F10
> for this reason.  I have several other F11 machines that don't use pvrusb2
> and they are running fine.  I have stopped upgrading from F10 to F11 for a
> period of time while any compiler issues are shaken out over time.
>
> Will be happy to answer detailed questions off list.  YMMV.
>

This may not be any help, but I am using Fedora 11 with Mythtv and a
pair of 29032 pvrusb2's and have not had any problems with them.  The
pvrusb2 module is the one that was distributed with the latest Fedora 11
kernel, so I am not compiling from source:

[rja at moria ~]$ uname -a
Linux moria.rogera.net 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 29 16:02:42 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[rja at moria ~]$ dmesg | grep -i pvrusb2
usbcore: registered new interface driver pvrusb2
pvrusb2: V4L in-tree version:Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner

One is recording channel 4 from a Comcast STB and gets a workout
recording shows on Comedy Central.

Let me know if you need any more info.

Roger J. Allen                                     rja {at] rogera.net