[mythtv] Machine hangs on channel-switching with MythTV
Patrick Pflaum
mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:08:29 -0600
Forgot tuner card in HW listing: ATI TV Wonder VE
Patrick Pflaum wrote:
>
> Here's my journey with mythtv:
>
> Started with fresh machine, Mandrake 9.0, installed mythtv and all
> the prerequisites.
>
> Whenever I start mythtv it worked just like the reset button on the
> front, the machine instantly rebooted.
> Installed Alsa drivers ( for onboard sound )
>
> mythtv works, but locks solid on channel changes. Randomly would
> let me switch channels one or two times.
>
> Installed SB-Live soundcard + change alsa drivers -> still locks on
> channel changes.
>
> Installed fresh copy of Mandrake *8.2* with SB-Live soundcard in,
> compiled qt from source, installed all the other prerequisites.
>
> AND IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!
>
> My hardware:
>
> MSI Motherboard, Athalon 1700, 512MB Ram, 80G HD, MSI nvidia
> geforce4 mx, 1 DVD drive, 1 CDRW drive, 1 PCI SB Live sound card.
>
> Don't know if that will help you at all, but there it is.
>
> Pat
>
>
>
> John wrote:
>
>> Erik, I have been having the same problem.
>>
>> I posted to this list a couple of weeks ago but did not get much
>> back.
>> http://www.snowman.net/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2002-November/000959.html Of
>> course everyone told me that I should not be using CVS, etc but that was
>> just my most recent try, I tried just about every combination I could
>> with
>> no luck. I started with Debian stable and the install went pretty
>> smooth.
>> Once I ran into problems I started changing the configuration. What is
>> your configuration? What kernel, bttv, alsa and video are you using?
>> One thing I never tried is to hook up a serial console to see if the
>> kernel logs any messages just before the crash. The only output I ever
>> got was while running mythtv from a ssh session: read audio:
>> Interrupted system call
>> VIDIOSYNC0: Interrupted system call
>>
>> xawtv also worked for me and I was able to watch live tv with Myth on
>> the
>> initial channel (Actually every now and again I could change channels
>> one
>> time. But this was very random). I successfully recorded and then
>> played
>> back a program. However while recording a second time I switched to
>> another window and started working on something else which caused the
>> hang. This may mean that the problem is not in the video, sound or
>> network drivers. That leaves BTTV and hard drive.
>>
>>> From what I could find you should make sure that your capture card is on
>>
>> it own interrupt (no help for me) and try adjusting the PCI latency
>> (never
>> found documentation on what values to try). I also read that upgrading
>> the harddrive drivers could help but I never found more information on
>> this.
>> I don't have myth installed anywhere right now, but if you find anything
>> or would like to work on this let me know and I will reload, but for
>> now I
>> am just out of patience with. Maybe I'll try again in a few weeks.
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> After a few weeks trying and reading this list I still have not solved
>>> my problem: MythTV hangs on all channelchanges.
>>>
>>> Xawtv works like a dream, and the source for channelswitching itself is
>>> functionally equal in both xawtv and mythtv.
>>>
>>> At the moment I am busy building a system from scratch and source,
>>> starting with the CRUX distribution, to avoid having everything and
>>> the kitchensink hanging around as with the big distributions. At least
>>> my frequent reboots will be quicker this way :-)
>>>
>>> Any pointers for the hanging problem? I stopped developing for MythTV
>>> as the rebooting was getting boring and I just waited for new releases
>>> of the BTTV or ALSA driver to solve my problem (quite sure my problem
>>> lies in that direction). And without channelswitching: the main menu,
>>> the EPG (without selecting a channel) and timeshifting on a the
>>> channel active when mythTV was started is about all you can do...
>>>
>>> Erik
>>>
>>>
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