Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 replacing WinTV, randomly rebooting
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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 replacing WinTV, randomly rebooting
On 6/1/05, Marty Mastera [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. I have these in modprobe.conf (for NL PAL) alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-1 ivtv alias char-major-81-2 ivtv alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv options ivtv ivtv_std=2 tda9887=0 options cx25840 no_black_magic=1 alias tuner tuner-ivtv But even if you're loading unneeded modules, it shouldn't cause you're system to crash. Two things I'd check: Run memtest86 overnight (or some other longish period). Check your powersupply. Maybe it doesn't give enough power for whatever is in your system and this is triggered by the use of the PVR500. I've no idea what 'enough' is BTW. Regards, Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 replacing WinTV, randomly rebooting
try the newer drivers3.5i is where its at atmshould be better for you www.ivtv.tv From: Marty Mastera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 8:07 AMTo: Discussion about mythtvSubject: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 replacing WinTV, randomly rebooting Hello, I have been running Myth 0.17on 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
