[mythtv-users] HD-PVR power cycling

[Jarod Wilson]

On May 4, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Don Lewis wrote:

> On  4 May, greg at nodecam.com wrote:
> 
>> As another data point - I have two HD-PVRs and two backends - one is rock
>> solid, the other one is super flaky.  Here's the kicker though, it appears
>> that the issue is more with the backend hardware than with the HD-PVR.
>> 
>> If I swap which machine each HD-PVR is hooked up to, the same backend is
>> still rock-solid and the other one is still flaky.  The stable one is an
>> older AMD box, and the unstable one is a newer Intel box.  They're running
>> basically the same custom kernel (with a few different drivers for HD
>> controllers etc)
>> 
>> The conclusion that I'd come to is that the Intel chipset's USB drivers
>> weren't playing nicely with the HD-PVR, but I haven't had a chance to do
>> more digging on it beyond that.
> 
> I've got an AMD system with ATI USB hardware.  My HD-PVR went from
> reasonably reliable to very flakey when I upgraded from 32-bit Fedora 12
> to 64-bit Fedora 14.  It now locks after about half a dozen recordings,
> but I can't trigger the problem outside MythTV.  It looks like some
> combination of MythTV, OS, and hardware is required to trigger the
> problem.

64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on Intel hardware (D975XBX board),
and my HD-PVR is rock-solid. Don't know exactly which revision it is,
other than "one of the fairly early ones" -- I got it in September of
2008.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com