[mythtv-users] PVR-500 + VIA KT400 = rebooting? black magic problem?

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

On 9/15/05, Fedor Pikus <fpikus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 9/14/05, Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > I recently bought a PVR-500 to replace my existing low-quality saa7139 
> > card. I've finally gotten through the various instructions and have gotten 
> > nice high-quality video out of /dev/video0.... but only for about 5 seconds, 
> > after which my machine reboots!!! There was a previous thread on the list 
> > where someone complained of having problems with KT133 motherboards, and 
> > since my mobo (Soyo KT400) uses the KT400 chipset, I thought there might be 
> > a problem. 
> 
> 
> It's a fairly common problem, most VIA-based boards won't even boot with 
> PVR-500. It's not strictly a chipset problem, at least one vendor (ASUS) 
> acknowleged the problem and released a BIOS update which fixes it. As far as 
> I know, Soyo did not, I could not get Soyo Dragon 2 to boot with PVR-500.
> 

Well, I upgraded the drivers on my Soyo KT400 Dragon board today from 
version 6 to version 9 and....it worked! No more rebooting problem. So, it 
seems at least that this rebooting thing is probably defeated by BIOS 
upgrades. Thanks to everyone for their help.

Try the latest BIOS for your board, but if that does not work, you're pretty 
> much hosed.
> 
> 
> Also, with the .3x release of ivtv, it seems that the no_black_magic flag 
> > is no longer an option, as I get the following in dmesg when I try to 
> > install the card:
> > 
> > cx25840: Unknown parameter `no_black_magic'
> > 
> > In any case: perfect video for a few seconds, then POOF reboot.
> > 
> > -Brian
> > 
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