[mythtv-users] gave up on the Epia

Matt Sullivan matthew.sullivan at ucd.ie
Thu Apr 14 13:58:34 UTC 2005


I avoided upgrading to the new driver due to negative early reports, but 
I should really try the new one, see if it helps.

I have everything running through TV-out on the VIA board. I am running 
at 800x600. Dont have my exact xorg.conf to hand, but I'm using PAL.

Thanks for the tip.

Matt

Jonas Pedersen wrote:

>Quoting Matt Sullivan <matthew.sullivan at ucd.ie>:
>
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>>I have an M10000 setup with a PVR 350 card. I recently rebuilt it using
>>the 0.20 ivtv drivers, 2.6.10 kernel and 0.17 MythTV. Everything got
>>compiled from scrach using Gentoo, and has the unichrome and XvMC
>>drivers installed. I have only one, really annoying, problem with it.
>>Whenever a recording starts or finishes, if I am watching a recording
>>(or even something with MPlayer) at the time, the entire box locks up.
>>Happened a couple of times too when copying files and recording
>>starts/stops. It means I have to time when I watch things on the box
>>very carefully.
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>I have almost the same setup as yours, are you using the tv-out on the VIA
>board? If you do, which resolution are using and is under or overscan you are
>using?
>
>Have also experienced many lock-ups with the 0.20 driver, but it was cured with
>a upgrade to a 0.3.2 IVTV driver. Hope that helps.
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Conway Institute
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University College Dublin



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