[mythtv-users] PVR 250 & VIA question

[David Rees]

Coax wrote, On 6/4/2004 9:51 AM:
> 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.

It works fine for me here with 2 250s:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:05.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)
00:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
00:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 
controller] (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 
controller] (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 
controller] (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] 
(rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 
5200] (rev a1)

Running on FC1 using ATRPMs modules.  I'm currently using 
ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck36, and all works fine except PiP (which is caused by 
a bug in this ivtv driver), but I haven't bothered to find one that 
works well as I never use PiP anyway.

-Dave