[mythtv-users] MythTV hangs pc
Dan Wilga
dwilga at MtHolyoke.edu
Mon Dec 6 19:27:06 UTC 2004
>From: Søren Pingel Dalsgaard <spd at mjolner.dk>
>
>I have mythtv running on my pc with a pvr250 but
>if I start using menus (pressing m and
>navigating the tv programme) it will suddenly
>hang the pc with the harddisk led on. Resetting
>the pc is the only way out of the dead-lock. I
>am running the ivtv 0.2.0-rc3 (0.3.1 does the
>same to my system).
I was having a similar problem at first. I
finally figured out that, for some reason, one of
my two tuner cards was using the same IRQ as the
onboard Firewire ports. Apparently, this
massively confused ivtv, as I would get DMA
errors, and then ivtv would unregister the IRQ,
which then caused the Firewire driver to hang up
the system.
I solved the problem by moving the tuner card to
another slot. I'd suggest you look at the output
of "lspci -v", to see if there are things using
the same IRQ as your PVR-250.
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Dan Wilga dwilga at mtholyoke.edu
Web Technology Specialist http://www.mtholyoke.edu
Mount Holyoke College Tel: 413-538-3027
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