[mythtv-users] PVR 250 & VIA question

[Jarod C. Wilson]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Friday 04 June 2004 09:51, Coax wrote:
> Don't bother.
>
> Its a bugged via chipset.  You'll get crashes on captures every 5-10
> minutes. (Although apparently, the ivtv guys are trying to work around
> this problem in software right now with the latest driver revisions.)
>
> Find a motherboard that does NOT have a VIA K*-133* or K*-266* chipset on
> it.  You'll be a lot happier.

This is a ymmv case. I have a KM266 board (MSI KM2M Combo-L) that runs 
flawlessly with both a PVR-250 and M179 on it.


> > Does anyone have a PVR 250 working with the following hardware/chipset?

Yes.

> > (from lspci)
> > Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
> > PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
> > ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
> > IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> > Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
> >
> > I deleted the network card, pvr card, and nvidia video card, but if it
> > matters I can include it.
> >
> > Does anyone have any known things I need to do special to get this to
> > work or is it a basic installation.  I would run Gentoo with a 2.6
> > kernel.
> >
> > Should I use enable agp support in the kernel?
> >
> > Mike

- -- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

Got a question? Read this first...
     http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation:
     http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/
MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive
     http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFAwNTJln8CX+oYdJURAg8eAJ91WI4hWbqMLykNWFti/NtstxG4EwCggcsl
2qAZJI+xzjs5aS7gpxI6af4=
=hzw7
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----