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Hi,<br>
I am surprised your box crashed while gaming. I have played quake III, descent
III, SOF and heretic II without any problem for hours. OK, heretic II has
sound problems but that is some SDL software bug having to do with the aureal
sound card. My box never crashed in a game, atleast not with linux.Of course,
it keeps crashing in windows 98 games. I have had a few lock-ups but they
are not so frequent that I would be worried. I have never had a kernel Ooops
though, what I have had is a lock-up, screen freeze and no response to the
keyboard. Last time I had it was when I tried to use the btaudio driver.
Usually happens when I do things like that. I am not using a PVR card. It's
just bt878 based pixelview playtv pro card. My recording(mpeg-4) is not working
right now, but I think I have goofed up somewhere. You see, there is less
load on my buses while I am recording because I am not watching TV at that
time(at least not yet). Anyway, when myth runs in a normal way(without recording),
at that point also it is both recording as well as playing to give you time
shift TV. So the load on your system buses should be more when you are watching
live TV then when you are recording a show . Actually, the load on your PCI
bus will always be the same because you are just reading from the bt878 and
not wrting anything to it or any other PCI card. Load on the AGP card would
be there when you are watching live tv but not when you are recording in
the background. The only part of my PC that would be heavily loaded when
recording is my 950 MHz CPU. But the CPU would be fine in any case. I too
once heard someone say somewhere that the KT133 chipset causes problems with
Nvidia's card(on a linux newsgroup), I was adviced to use 2X AGP, of course
I would never consider a step like that !! I might want to play Quake III
and descent III and I don't want to degrade my system performance needlessly.
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I'll try to make my recording work. Maybe, I have done some mistake somewhere.
As I said I am not using a PVR card.<br>
AFAIK, your machine should work just fine. <br>
Actually, I tried to overclock my machine a few days ago, and now whenever
I insert the cable into the tv tuner, the windows start shaking a little
bit. I have removed the overclocking now but it's still shaking. Perhaps
something in tv tuner got damaged (increased PCI bus to 36 MHz). Otherwise,
my machine is working perfectly fine, including quake III.<br>
Let me try to get that fixed and I will see whether I am able to record or
not. Watching live TV never crashed my myth box, but then I asked it to keep
only a 1 GB buffer and I have 1 GB of RAM, my buffer was possibly entirely
in my RAM, or atleast 80% of it. Depends on the mythtv code though, could
have been on the HDD too. All I know is that for the first time in my computer's
life, the used memory bar moved up to claim the entire 1GB.<br>
Here is my config :-<br>
AMD Athlon ThunderBird 950 MHz<br>
FIC AZ11E - KT 133 chipset - via 686B and vt8363<br>
Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 400 64 MB<br>
Pixelview PlayTv Pro - bt 878<br>
Seagate Barracuda 80 GB 7200 rpm<br>
1 GB generic unbranded 133 MHz SDRAM - dirt cheap stuff !<br>
Red Hat 7.2 with some upgrades - Nvidia driver<br>
myth - 0.11 (haven't upgraded to 0.12 yet)<br>
<br>
Hope your old computer starts working again !<br>
thanks a lot<br>
Dhiraj<br>
<br>
Craig O'Shannessy wrote:<br>
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cite="midPine.LNX.4.44.0312082330110.1691-100000@mail.undercoverwear.com.au">
<pre wrap="">Hi Dhiraj,
I know it sucks. I can't remember what the suspected problem was, I could
watch tv using xawtv as well, no problems, but Myth slams the PCI bus MUCH
harder than xawtv alone, especially when watching live TV. My box would
crash in non-repeatable ways (different modules each time) within an hour
of running up Myth and watching livetv, or recording. I did RAM tests
etc.
I believe it was something to do with the interrupt handling or something.
Anyhow, I'm not SURE it was the MOBO, I ended up getting a whole new box,
but I ran EXACTLY the same software (same harddisc) on the new box, and it
hasn't crashed once.
See this google search for evidence of others with KT133's and myth.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=+site:mythtv.org+kt133">http://www.google.com.au/search?q=+site:mythtv.org+kt133</a>
I've got a dead old computer too. It did use to crash occasionally before
I tried turning it into a myth box, but I always thought it was an X or
NVidia problem, because it was only whilst gaming. Maybe that was the
only time I thrashed it hard enough to crash? (Until myth ;)
If you find a way to get this mobo going with Myth, please let me know,
and I'll make someone a PVR for xmas ;)
Craig
From: Dhiraj Gaurh <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dhiraj@vishnubhugwaan.org"><dhiraj@vishnubhugwaan.org></a>
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<pre wrap="">I have the FIC AZ11E which also uses KT133 chipset. I have never had
kernel Ooops but my recording part is not working yet. If bttv has
problems with KT133 then why have I been watching TV for the last two
years using xwtv without any problems. How does bttv know that I am
recording or playing, it should be the same thing, this is just an
application level differnce. I have used the vcr program to record shows
in the past without any problems. If you can watch TV on this chipset
then it is perfectly possible to record too.
I am using RH 7.2 with AMD T-BIRD 950 MHZ
My mythtv recording part is not working because of some software
problem which I need to fix, it doesn't crash my machine. It just
doesn't record, nothing happens. I am not going to believe that this
KT133 bug surfaces only with myth and not with vcr !
A computer costs a lot of money. I can't afford to buy a new computer
because some particular feature of one application is crashing. Why
don't you use mythtv to watch live tv and use vcr to record in your old
computer. Should work on yours if it works on mine. If KT133 is at
fault, that is.
You murdered your old friendly computer :)
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