Re: [expert] TV Tuner kills system

2003-11-07 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 05.27 07/11/2003, you wrote:
Hi all. I've got a bt878 tuner (ATI TV wonder VE, also have an old STB TV 
PCI bt848 with the same issues), soundblaster live 5.1, and 3com cyclone 
ethernet card (eth0) on an Asus nforce2 board (A7N8X) with a Geforce2mx. 
On board sound is disabled in the bios, on board ethernet is running as 
eth1. If the tv tuner is not in use (i.e. I haven't started xawtv or motv) 
everything's fine. A few seconds after I start up motv/xawtv either the tv 
tuner, sound card or ethernet will stop working. The tuner's image will 
freeze, the sound card will start playing static or the ethernet just 
won't connect (I'm on broadband).
I had a similar problem with a bt878 card under 9.0, but everything stopped 
working during boot.
I tried win XP and I had the same problem, while Win 98 not.

Just to let you know...

Olaf


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[expert] TV Tuner kills system

2003-11-06 Thread Jeremy Gregorio
Hi all. I've got a bt878 tuner (ATI TV wonder VE, also have an old STB 
TV PCI bt848 with the same issues), soundblaster live 5.1, and 3com 
cyclone ethernet card (eth0) on an Asus nforce2 board (A7N8X) with a 
Geforce2mx. On board sound is disabled in the bios, on board ethernet is 
running as eth1. If the tv tuner is not in use (i.e. I haven't started 
xawtv or motv) everything's fine. A few seconds after I start up 
motv/xawtv either the tv tuner, sound card or ethernet will stop 
working. The tuner's image will freeze, the sound card will start 
playing static or the ethernet just won't connect (I'm on broadband). 
I'm running mandrake 9.1 with a kernel   2.4.21-0.25 with these parameters:

hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi noapic acpi=off pci=noacpi

Not sure if the pci=noapic does anything worthwhile, but my system is 
completely useless without the acpi=off line.

Moving the card around seems to change which device goes dead, but no 
matter where I put it one card will go dead. I've managed to get it to 
the point where there are no IRQ conflicts but that didn't help. Right 
now the tv card is sharing an irq with usb-ohci. My /proc/interrupts:

  CPU0  
 0:  58151  XT-PIC  timer
 1:   3942  XT-PIC  keyboard
 2:  0  XT-PIC  cascade
 5: 26  XT-PIC  usb-ohci, bttv
 8:  1  XT-PIC  rtc
10:  12102  XT-PIC  ehci-hcd, eth1
11:  37089  XT-PIC  eth0, EMU10K1
12:  49692  XT-PIC  usb-ohci, nvidia
14:  22889  XT-PIC  ide0
15:149  XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:  0
LOC:  58118
ERR: 20
MIS:  0



Reloading the driver doesn't help, only rebooting. I have no idea what 
the cause/solution might be. Can someone with more hardware experience 
give me some insight? Does anyone have this working on a simular set up? 
Thanks again :).

Jeremy Gregorio
  


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