[mythtv-users] Re: PVR-350 or motherboard?

[jose rubio]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 09:36, Jay Goldberg wrote:
> Hi Folks

[snip]

> Nov 17 09:02:12 tesla kernel: ivtv: DMA read error. Result=0x00000002
> [...]
> Nov 17 09:04:04 tesla timestamp: elapsed 1190
> 
> ...again, the machine is completely locked up - no response at the console
> or the network, and must be powered down.
> 
> ...at this time, the ring buffer is:
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     773664704 Nov 17 09:04 /mnt/store/ringbuf1.nuv
> 
> There's *lots* (> 200GB) of free space on this disk...
> 
> Can this be an IDE issue?  Is there a simple way in MythTV to limit the
> size of the ringbuffer to, say, 200MB?  If limiting the size of the ring
> buffer eliminates the lockup, then I'll have to debug more along the IDE
> path...
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 	Cheers
> 		Jay
> 
> 
> -- 
IIRC the ringbuffer size can be set from one of the setup screens.  I'm
not at home now so I can't check but it was either in the 'setup'
program or in one mythfrontend's setup screens.


-jose-
ps: come to think of it, I'm not being very helpful here am I?