[mythtv-users] Liva BAT-MINI V1.0 [Problems rebooting]

[Warpme]

On 29/12/14 14:58, Doug Lytle wrote:
> I've been playing around with a Liva as a MythFrontend to replace my 
> aging Rivo.
>
> I'm using an HDHR Prime with Cable Card out of Michigan.
>
> The menus are snappier, MKV DVD and BD rips play well; 720i and 1080i 
> recordings play without issues. But, I've had a some problems with 
> LiveTV and rebooting.
>
> 1.)  Sometimes audio is garbled, just briefly, or when scrolling 
> through the guide
> 2.)  The ticker window on some news channels are jerky
> 3.)  The little unit doesn't like to reboot successfully.  It will 
> power cycle, come up to the ESC logo and just sit there, or sometimes 
> it will try to boot with a kernel error of:
>
> soft lockup - CPU1 stuck for 23s! [swapper/0:1]
>
> I've used the current Ubuntu 14.04 Intel driver install package 
> successfully from:
>
> https://01.org/linuxgraphics
>
> I'm at the most current firmware for this unit
>
> I've tried both Mint KDE 17 and Mint Cinnamon 17.1 with the same results
>
> Has anybody else seen this?
>
> Google suggests that using acpi=off noapic to fix, but it prevents the 
> Liva from finding it's storage.
>
> uname -a
> Linux doug-BAT-MINI 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 
> 21:28:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Doug
>
Doug,
I see You are playing with  graphic stack on Intel silicon.
If disk-less, network booted FE is OK for You - You may try 
http://minimyth2.linuxd.org
Requirement is PXE boot capability on Your HW and 2G+ of RAM.
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