[mythtv-users] kt133 problem question

Boyd II, Willy wboyd at fulbright.com
Wed Sep 10 16:03:26 EDT 2003


I must concur, I too tried the "unmaskirq" option, and no difference.

I thought things were getting stable by some chance, but last night it was
if I just couldn't keep mythbackend running again. Segfaults left & right.

I also tried the latest ivtv driver which is supposed to be the "best code
out there right now".  It spits out "Unresolved symbols" on depmod -a, and
if I insmod the modules by hand, it looks like it's going to work until I
start mythbackend.  IRQ errors, hundreds of "not enough free buffers"
errors, and mythfrontend doesn't work.  So I reverted back to the cvs I was
using before 9-6-2003's update to the ivtv.sourceforge.net site, and at
least I can squeeze 10-30 min. of livetv out of it before it segfaults.

I'm probably going to give up on this board & get an ECS K7S5A or whatever.
I need to upgrade my fileserver/nat box anyway, and this board was just fine
until I started hammering the IO :-)

FWIW, I checked out all the myth modules from CVS last night, and I'll build
& try those when I get home.  I'm not holding my breath though.

- Willy


-----Original Message-----
From: Craig O'Shannessy [mailto:craig at ucw.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 8:46 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] kt133 problem question


I tried the "unmasqirq" off last night on my KT133 board, and it still 
crashed about 2 hours later, watching live TV.

I'm almost certainly going to give up.  I've just ordered a DVB card, so I 
don't think my 1GHz Athlon is up to digital mpeg decoding and analog 
encoding and watching recordings at the same time, so I probably need to 
anyhow.  This box seems stable as long as I'm not hammering the IO, it was 
my development machine for years.  Make a nice gift I suppose.

Craig



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