Simon John wrote: > Keehan Dowd wrote: >> Hi Hans, >> I did not want to intrude and send this directly to your email address... >> >> I caved in with the DMA errors and bought an SiS chipset motherboard and >> I was wondering if you'd like the VIA mobo I replaced? It's a MachSpeed >> P4M800 (http://www.machspeed.com/specs/matrix/mp4m800.htm) and I'd be >> happy to send it to you to "further the cause" in aiding to get to the >> bottom of the DMA error problem. >> >> Maybe some others on the IVTV users list might be able to chip in with >> some DDR SDRAM sticks and/or a CPU to throw on it... >> >> Now I just have to sit back and wait to see if the DMA errors return >> with this new motherboard. :) > > does the dma problem affect all via chipsets then, not just my kt266? > > i'm looking for a new board myself now, never was keen on sis, but i did > have my pvr250 working on one. how are nforce or intel boards? > > i have an old iwill kt133 (p3) board if that would help? >
Actually I tested my PVR-350 on a VIA KT333, an Intel 440BX, and an nVidia nForce 4 Ultra. Neither boards gave me problems, all worked flawlessly. Just for information I use www.archlinux.org as my operating system. As pointed out in earlier posts (a few weeks ago) a user had a DMA problem with kernel x, but did not have it with kernel y. This makes me believe that it is a kernel (timing of some sort?) issue and the chipset doesn't have a big influence, but maybe it's influence comes from how rapidly a chipset triggers the bug. Just my .02 euro. Glenn _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
