It looks like the crystalhd drivers are buggy with newer kernel releases. I opt for removing the dkms package. I will do this over the weekend.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:52 PM, thomas schorpp <thomas.scho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28.02.2013 20:41, Julien Cristau wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 19:25:50 +0100, tom schorpp wrote: >> >>> Package: crystalhd-dkms >>> Version: 1:0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19-7 >>> Severity: critical >>> Tags: patch >>> Justification: breaks the whole system >>> >>> Reproducible NULL pointer BUG at >>> crystalhd-0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19/driver/linux/crystalhd_misc.c:515, >>> triggered by adobe flash plugin from dmo repo, ffmpeg, mplayer, bino or >>> other, mostly on heavy ioq usage >>> or after FETCH_TIMEOUT and/or unclosed driver HANDLEs. >>> >> Does the maintainer or somebody on pkg-multimedia plan on fixing this RC >> bug? If not I'll consider a NMU removing the dkms package from >> crystalhd source. >> >> Cheers, >> Julien >> > > Known linux-media Maintainers > > STAGING - CRYSTAL HD VIDEO DECODER > M: Naren Sankar <nsan...@broadcom.com> > M: Jarod Wilson <ja...@wilsonet.com> > M: Scott Davilla <davi...@4pi.com> > M: Manu Abraham <abraham.m...@gmail.com> > > seem to have left the Broadcom's legacy driver code, focusing on the new > linux-media staging driver, but limited time, > one stated lately on the linux-media/LKML, nothing read from the others. > I could adapt it to new kernel releases the next 2-3 years, but nothing > more, not a experienced kernel driver coder, > no debian package/policy maintaining motivation because I do not use dkms or > debian kernels packages. > > If my last patch applies to Your codebase in the debian git repository (mine > is from git.linuxtv.org, according to the > git changelog more advanced in the gstreamer plugin, merge?) You may > consider it > > "hotfixed" > > and release with known multithreading (gstreamer based transcoders/matroska > demuxers) and PM ACPI S3 issues? > Has not crashed here any more, nor notable side effects with usual playback > use cases, including Totem (gstreamer). > > y > tom > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list > pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers -- ~ Andres -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
