[mythtv-users] SP13000 + Haupauge PVR 500

[Krist van Besien]

On 4/13/05, MagicITX <magicitx at gmail.com> wrote:

> The thinking on the "gave up on Epia" thread says that you should plan
> on building your system from source.  At least some of the problems
> people report are due to binary kernels that use cpu features not
> present in the VIA cpu.  One writer suggested the "DMA problem" may be
> due to this.  I can't say as I've not experienced the problem.

I run Gentoo on the EPIA system I have. Compiled from source... I did
encounter DMA problems twice, in the following circumstances:

- Copying large files to a USB disk. I suspected this was more due to
the USB-IDE controller in the enclosure being of low quality. Swapped
disk to other enclosure and never had trouble again.
- Copying large files to the disk using samba. I do not do that
anymore, al my file transfers over the lan are with scp now. I copy
large files on a regular basis, without any problems now.

Krist

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