[mythtv-users] Hard crash, where to begin?

[Matt]

Thanks Steve

Yeah, alsa did the trick.  I wonder if there are any compelling reasons 
to use btaudio.

Which would have lower overhead, using btaudio or using the regular 
sound card in full duplex?

Steve Davidson wrote:

>Sorry, I meant btaudio - couldn't remember the project name.  Too many
>projects, too little memory...<g>
>
>Sounds like you have the same chipset that I have.  When I was running
>the OSS drivers and tried to record or watch live tv, my machine would
>lock up hard - power switch held in for 5 secs would not even power
>down.  Building and installing the Alsa drivers fixed the problem in my
>case: YMMV.
>
>FWIW, here's my LSPCI dump:
>
>00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]
>(rev 03)
>00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
>00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South]
>(rev 40)
>00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus
>Master
>IDE (rev 06)
>00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a)
>00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a)
>00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
>(rev 40)
>00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686
>AC97 Audio
>Controller (rev 50)
>00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
>00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
>Capture (rev 11)
>00:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
>(rev 11)
>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti
>4200] (rev a3)
>
>A word of warning: the Alsa drivers compiled cleanly, but I got a ton of
>missing dependency warnings when I tried to run; If you experience this
>behavior, you need to run "touch include/linux/workqueue.h" within the
>alsa-driver-xxx directory AFTER running ./configure but before executing
>build.
>
>BTW, I have not yet tried btaudio, as Alsa is working fine for me.
>
>HTH,
>
>Steve
>
>On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 18:07, Matt wrote:
>
>>bt878 patch? is that used in conjunction with btaudio?
>>Seems like that would be the preferred way to do it.  Correct?
>>
>>yes integrated sound card, lspci reveals:
>>
>>00:04.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 
>>AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
>>00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video 
>>Capture (rev 11)
>>00:09.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture 
>>(rev 11)
>>
>
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