<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/15/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fedor Pikus</b> <<a href="mailto:fpikus@gmail.com">fpikus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q">On 9/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian M. Sperlongano</b> <<a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">zelonewolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Folks,<br>
<br>
I recently bought a PVR-<span name="st">500</span> to replace my existing low-quality saa7139
card. I've finally gotten through the various instructions and
have gotten nice high-quality video out of /dev/video0.... but only for
about 5 seconds, after which my machine reboots!!! There was a
previous thread on the list where someone complained of having problems
with KT133 motherboards, and since my mobo (Soyo KT400) uses the KT400
chipset, I thought there might be a problem. </blockquote></span><div><br>
It's a fairly common problem, most VIA-based boards won't even boot
with PVR-500. It's not strictly a chipset problem, at least one vendor
(ASUS) acknowleged the problem and released a BIOS update which fixes
it. As far as I know, Soyo did not, I could not get Soyo Dragon 2 to
boot with PVR-500.</div></div></blockquote><div><br>
Well, I upgraded the drivers on my Soyo KT400 Dragon board today from
version 6 to version 9 and....it worked! No more rebooting
problem. So, it seems at least that this rebooting thing is
probably defeated by BIOS upgrades. Thanks to everyone for their
help.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div>
Try the latest BIOS for your board, but if that does not work, you're pretty much hosed.<br>
<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><span class="q">
Also, with the .3x release of ivtv, it seems that the no_black_magic
flag is no longer an option, as I get the following in dmesg when I try
to install the card:<br>
<br>
cx25840: Unknown parameter `no_black_magic'<br>
<br>
In any case: perfect video for a few seconds, then POOF reboot.<br><span>
<br>
-Brian<br>
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