<div>Some years ago I posted regarding a saa7134 tuner in FC3; our mythbox, with that and using 0.18, had been running pretty good (albeit the frontend crashed some, but never so destructively I felt like trying to fix it...); recently I took the plunge and upgraded to .20.
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<div>First I tried a brand-spanking-new FC6 install; but that had the issue of the sound being muted on every channel change (so I used <font size="2">Neale Pickett's cronjob to unmute every 5 seconds). That worked, but the system locked up disturbingly often--which I thought might be related to that hack. So I went back to my FC3 setup, and did a dist-upgrade (since only update'ing mythtv kept erroring out). At first it worked fine, but recently it's been locking up again, with increasing frequency.
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<div><font size="2">So I'm here, begging for help. :]</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">The lockup usually occurs during the night, which made me think it might have to do with mythfilldatabase, but that's set to run when zap2it tells it to, so it may not be run then. Unless it's a problem unrelated to mythtv, of course; but then, mythtv and its prereqs is all we run on the box...
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<div><font size="2">Now, I'm afraid I'm enough of a newb to not even really know what logs to check (or how) to see what might be relevant...</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Anyway, hoping for answers--or at least relevant questions that'll tell me what to look at... ;)</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Cheers,</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">(Short system summary:</font></div>
<div><font size="2">FC3 install (via Jarod's guide), except using ext3 on the LVM video partition.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">nforce2 MB with AMD 3000+ (@2.0ghz, not overclocked)</font></div>
<div><font size="2">1GB ram, 160GB + 320GB drives</font></div>
<div><font size="2">1x saa7134 tuner (Flyvideo 3000FM)</font></div>
<div><font size="2">2x ATI TV Wonder (the old kind, that supposedly can do btaudio; but right now using only one and that via analog line-in sound)</font></div>
<div><font size="2">SB Live as second sound card</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Geforce4</font></div>