[mythtv-users] Mythbackend Crashes While Changing Channels on HD-5500

[Kirk Bocek]

Chris Weiland wrote:
> Eh, that was poor phrasing.  What happened to me was that I didn't set
> the permissions on /dev/raw1394 for my firewire input, which would cause
> the backend to crash pretty much any time I did anything in the frontend.
> 
> You also might want to play with your irq settings in your bios.  I
> think I ran into a problem when my sound card and 5500 tried to use the
> same irq, which actually cause the sound card to fail to initialize. 
> It's probably not your problem, but it might be worth a shot.  I don't
> remember exactly what I did in the bios though.
> 

Permission aren't the problem here. The card *does* work with mythbackend --
just not reliably.

I'll take a look at the IRQ settings, but the card *does* get initialized.