On 6/3/05, Mark J. Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > My TV frontend has started to crash recently. It happens when I start to > watch some recordings (say about 1 out of every 3). If I restart the > frontend and try again, it will work. Once I had to restart twice. > > Also, when I start some recordings on my desktop frontend (a beefier machine), > it will play a split second of audio, pause for around two seconds, then play > normally. I think this is related. > > Since the TV frontend has no keyboard or mouse, the power button tip here: > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php is the only thing that makes this problem > slight annoyance instead of a WAF killer. > > My setup: > > Backend: 3 Freestyle's, 800 MHz Duron, 256MB RAM. 40 GB ext2 / drive, 160MB > jfs /mnt/store/ drive. > TV Frontend: MX440 vga out to Scan converter, 733MHz P3, 256 MB RAM, root > mounted NFS from backend. > Desktop Frontend: Athlon XP 2000+, 256MB RAM, 40 GB drive, Nvidia TNT2. > > All systems are running Debian Sarge. > > I have made four major changes to my entire setup recently, so I imagine that > one of them is the culprit. > > (1) Updated to 0.18 (not 0.18.1 yet) > (2) Upgraded TV frontend hardware from Celeron 433/TNT2 > (3) Added 160MB JFS video storage drive to backend > (4) Changed backend motherboard from a VIA chipset to a Sis chipset board. > This fixed any problems I had with recording 2 programs at once.
What's the output of the frontend log when a crash occurs - seems like a good place to start. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users