[mythtv-users] Via KT-133 and PVR-350?

William Powers wepprop at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jan 10 18:32:23 EST 2004


You might also try 1) Installing a recent 2.4 kernel or even a 2.6 
kernel, or 2) Installing the kernel patches available at the VIA 
website.  Linux support for VIA chipsets has been steadily improving.

David Rees wrote:

> Thomas Rokamp wrote, On 1/10/2004 9:00 AM:
> 
>>  
>> Monday I will start installing a MythTV server for the first time. I 
>> have been reading alot about it, and today I found this on the ivtv faq:
>>  
>> //quote
>> Some chipsets seem to have a problem with the large amount of DMA 
>> traffic that IvyTV generates combined with the large amount of DMA 
>> traffic of the data being written to disk. From what I understand 
>> these are known issues in linux for these chipsets. Currently the list 
>> is just via chipsets; the kx133, kt133, kt266, and the kt400
>> //quote
>>  
>> I actually have a mainboard with the Via KT-133 chipset. What problems 
>> will I probably experience if any?
> 
> 
> You will probably experience dropped frames and or ivtv driver hangs. 
> Eventually the ivtv driver will probably be fixed to not hang, as it may 
> be related to issues people are also having with ivtv hanging under high 
> system load when using other chipsets as well.
> 
> The most reliable method I've seen so far to trigger this issue is to 
> record while playing back a DVD (which presumably also generates a lot 
> of DMA traffic over the PCI bus.
> 
>> And do you know any solution to them?
> 
> 
> As for now, it doesn't seem that you are guaranteed to have problems 
> because you have one of those chipsets.  Best thing to do is to try it 
> and hope it works OK, if it doesn't, start shopping for another 
> motherboard.
> 
> -Dave
> 
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