[mythtv-users] Myth Freezing

Coax coax at cornernet.com
Sun Apr 4 00:38:00 EST 2004


cool.  With 2.6.3, (AFAIK) you can turn the APIC stuff off with a boot
parameter, so you're okay there.

It doesn't matter which distro you use; if it works for you, all's good.
:)

Take care!

Chad

> Thanks,  I'm using 2.6.3 on Gentoo (yes I actually like it better, its
> not just snob apeal).  I'll turn local APIC off and see if that fixes it
> also found Suttle released a firmware upgrade which "fixes some DDR
> problems".  Hopefully one will fix it.
>
> Bryan
> On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 20:53, Coax wrote:
> > Hello, Bryan.
> >
> > Your motherboard utilizes the nVidia NFORCE2 chipset.  It is known to have
> > DMA crash problems when SMP or Local Apic is enabled in your kernel.
> >
> > i'm not really sure if this can help you, or what distribution you're
> > running, but I have 2 tarballs with a kernel (and associated modules
> > trees, etc) up for download at:
> >
> > http://www.cornernet.com/~coax/knoppmyth-kernels/
> >
> > These kernels should be able to be used in any distribution, but the
> > kernels were compiled for KnoppMyth.
> >
> > They've been compiled with both SMP and Local APIC turned off.. That
> > should fix any crash bugs that have to do with that specific problem.
> >
> > Oh. Yeah. and if you need to install the NFORCE2 drivers, i've also put up
> > the kernel source tree in a tarball in that directory.  The file is large,
> > but includes the fully compiled tree with all the .o's and .h's intact so
> > your nvidia drivers should be able to utilize the tree as is.. :)
> >
> > Hope this helps!!
> >
> > Chad
> >
> >
> > > I'm having problems where after watching TV or recording for more than
> > > about 10 seconds my computer hangs.  Its running nothing else and
> > > doesn't seem to have problems with other high load situations.  Its a
> > > Shuttle SN45G with an Athlon XP 2500+, WD 160GB hard drive, 512MB of
> > > Muskin (400MHz) memory, an ATI TV Wonder tuner and Nvidia FX 5200 video
> > > cards.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Bryan
> > >
> >
> >
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