[mythtv-users] What is the best distro / kernel version /ivtv version for mythtv

[Chris Isip]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Gerald Schepens <schepens at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I could be totally wrong about this, but that kernel is nearly a year
> old, and I think that may be why it works well.  There was something
> with 2.6.23 or 2.6.24 where they redid a bunch of the ivtv stuff and at
> that point, although some things worked way better, some other subtle
> things seemed to go a bit south, i.e. the buffer / "application not
> reading data fast enough" thing.
>
> Not sure what the kernel version was on centOS but my i386 fedora 8 box
> (already a version behind) is 2.6.24.5.  My x86_64 on f9 is 2.6.25-14
> (but I would recommend waiting another month before doing anything with
> f9, particularly if you're running an nvidia graphics card).
>
> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 20:46 -0400, Chris Isip wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Gordon McCrae
> > <gordon-mccrae at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> >
> >         Chris Isip wrote:
> >         > What combination of the above have people tried with the
> >         best
> >         > results.  I'm trying to find the combination that will get
> >         rid of dma
> >         > timeout errors.
> >         >
> >         > Thanks
> >         > Chris
> >         >
> >
> >         >
> >
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> >         Can happily report that my openSuSE 10.3 system autodetected
> >         the IVTV
> >         card fine on my system.
> >
> >         I use it to watch feed from Sky TV here in the UK without
> >         problems.
> >
> >         Kernel is "2.6.22.17-0.1-default" from automatic updates, and
> >         the
> >         following IVTV rpms are installed:
> >
> >         ivtv-firmware-0.10.3-37
> >         ivtv-kmp-default-0.10.3_2.6.22.17_0.1-37.1
> >         ivtv-0.10.3-37
> >
> >         Again, from automatic updates, no manual tweaking.
> >
> >         Cheers
> >         Gordon
> >
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> > I used to run myth in Centos 5.1 and I got DMA issues there.  It was a
> > xen kernel.  I am running it in an  ubuntu  hardy domU  now and  while
> > the dma  issues are less, they are still there.
> >
> > I have a Dell e510 PC and both a PVR 250 and PVR 500.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Chris
> >
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I am seeing the buffer error in my logs and I am running
2.6.24-16

Are you suggesting that f9 is the best as far as kernel and ivtv?

Thanks
Chris
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