[mythtv-users] MythTV hangs pc

[Dan Wilga]

>From: Søren Pingel Dalsgaard <spd at mjolner.dk>
>
>I have mythtv running on my pc with a pvr250 but 
>if I start using menus (pressing m and 
>navigating the tv programme) it will suddenly 
>hang the pc with the harddisk led on. Resetting 
>the pc is the only way out of the dead-lock. I 
>am running the ivtv 0.2.0-rc3 (0.3.1 does the 
>same to my system).

I was having a similar problem at first. I 
finally figured out that, for some reason, one of 
my two tuner cards was using the same IRQ as the 
onboard Firewire ports. Apparently, this 
massively confused ivtv, as I would get DMA 
errors, and then ivtv would unregister the IRQ, 
which then caused the Firewire driver to hang up 
the system.

I solved the problem by moving the tuner card to 
another slot. I'd suggest you look at the output 
of "lspci -v", to see if there are things using 
the same IRQ as your PVR-250.

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