[mythtv-users] freeze problems

[John Goulah]

Hi,
 
 I posted a few days ago about having freeze issues under X, and then I 
thought I fixed it by changing the depth res from 24 to 16 but apparently I 
spoke too soon. 

My configuration is using Redhat 8 and kernel 2.4.21 (just got it yesterday). 
I don't know if installing the new kernel with most of the components that I 
compiled under the old kernel is causing any of the problems or not, but I 
had seen similar issues before with the stock kernel, and with both the 
generic and nvidia drivers with the stock kernel also.

For a little bit everything seemed to have fixed itself when I changed the 
depth a few days ago (tv viewing under myth tv, and some modules), and now I 
have been configuring alsa to work (which seems to almost work with 
everything, still some trouble capturing /dev/dsp). Now I get freeze ups, 
mostly random, but easily caused when clicking "watch tv" (sometimes I can 
just browse the web for a while and get a freeze up)... 



I know this really isn't mythtv specific but would anyone have any 
recommendations on how to go about fixing this. Maybe someone has a similar 
configuration as me , I have

Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra (black) Motherboard
AMD 2600+ XP w/ 1 GB of RAM
ATI TV Wonder
GeForce2 MX400 (PCI)


Could the PCI graphics card be causing problems since it has an AGP slot on 
the motherboard? I do see:
bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge

in dmesg after I load bttv, but not really sure what that means or if it 
matters.

And this is the relevant line from /var/log/messages when the system crashes 
on a TV freeze:

Jun 14 13:38:28 mythserver kernel: bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL 
(28636363).


Any help is appreciated, I can provide any other info if someone can help 
diagnose.
Thanks!
John