On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 16:07 -0600, Marty Mastera wrote: > Hello, > > I have been running Myth 0.17 on a Soyo K7VME mobo and a WinTV PCI > card. This system is normally only used as a backend for an xbox > frontend. I recently replaced the WinTV card with a PVR-500MCE. All > I did was remove the WinTV card and replace it with the PVR-500 card, > then followed instructions to download ivtv 0.3.2s and configure it. > > I then removed the WinTV card from mythsetup and added two capture > cards, one for each tuner on the 500. All of the functionality is > working good (ie I can watch live tv, record two shows at once, etc, > etc) but the machine randomly reboots itself every so often. It only > seems to happen when one or more of the tuners are in use (ie during > live TV) and seems to possibly happen more quickly if I change > channels alot. In general the audio is working great but it seems > like on certain channels (or possibly on every channel but only right > before it decides to reboot) I notice some slight audio distortion I > have heard of people having trouble with VIA chipsets, but I have read > posts where people have had success with the KM400 chipset. I have > tried the PVR-500 in a different slot, installed the newest BIOS, > verifed that the reboots will occur whether or not the xbox is > involved, tried to make sure things are using unique IRQs, etc...here > are a couple of questions: > > 1) Can anyone tell me which modules should be loaded and running for a > PVR-500? I'm wondering if the sytem is still loading modules for the > old WinTV card...I see references to bttv in the dmesg output. > > 2) Is anyone else using this motherboard with a PVR-150 or PVR-500? > If so what are your experiences > > 3) Besides adding the new tuner cards and mapping sources, etc...in > the mythsetup, is there anything on the backend that I would have > needed to switch after I install this card? > > > > > > Marty > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Hello, I suppose you may be right on the VIA chipset thing. I haven't read anything about that yet, but I also have a VIA chipset (KT133A) although on a different board and my system reboots with one or two PVR500-MCE. Works fine with just a PVR350. I have tried ivtv 0.3.5f, 0.3.5s and 0.2.0-rc3j (0.2.0-rc3j has the PVR500-MCE support backported to it), all of them cause a reboot even when I am capturing video with cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/asd0.mpg No MythTV is needed for these random reboots to occur. At least once, the machine rebooted just by having the modules loaded, no capture involved. I haven't tried these cards in Windows, so I don't know if they cause a reboot or not. If they don't, then maybe there is a software workaround for this issue. Cheers, Sergio
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