[mythtv-users] Fast CPU, DMA enabled on HD, Xv enabled, still getting pauses in Live TV

[Shawn]

Failing that, take a look and see who's using which IRQs.

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 13:06, Joe V wrote:
> Cedar,
> 
> That's the thing...  I started off when a clean
> install of RedHat, never optimizing, and I was still
> having problems.  At that point, I figured that I'd
> try to "optimize the hell" out of it, so to speak to
> see if that fixes anything.
> 
> I'll keep trying, see what happens with a different
> PSU and hard drive.  I thought that previously with
> this PSU that the hard drive was starting and stopping
> while the machine was running (although I don't recall
> seeing this lately), and that would definitely muck
> things up.
> 
> -- Joe
> 
> --- Cedar <cedarmckay at mac.com> wrote:
> > Joe V wrote:
> > 
> > >Cedar,
> > >
> > >The only thing that I can think of that would cause
> > >the problem would be the hard drive or the power
> > >supply, since everything else is new.
> > >
> > >It is a 350W power supply which might be marginal,
> > so
> > >I'll try putting my 520W PSU from my main system in
> > >and try swapping out the hard drive with another
> > one
> > >from my desktop.  That's about all I can think of.
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Your machine is really quite grunty. It should be
> > able to perform well 
> > in an unoptimized situation. Rather than optimizing
> > right up front, why 
> > don't you try everything stock first and see what
> > happens. For instance, 
> > you might try a fresh RH9 install, accepting
> > defaults for disk 
> > partitioning etc. Use the stock RH9 kernel. If it
> > works for you use the 
> > stock OSS sound drivers rather than alsa. When you
> > compile mythtv, don't 
> > mess with settings.pro. The only thing I definitely
> > would do is:
> > /sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
> > as root after boot. The reason I suggest this "don't
> > mess with it" 
> > strategy is perhaps you screwed yourself with some
> > setting, perhaps in 
> > how you compiled the kernel, or whatever. Using the
> > defaults would give 
> > you sort of a known baseline. If that works you can
> > start changing things.
> > 
> > Goodluck.
> > Cedar
> > 
> > 
> > 
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