[mythtv] Daily reboot while not recording?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 03 December 2004 14:37, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> I guess it depends on how stable your capture card driver is and which
> distro your using.  I use slackware (because it's simple and doesn't use
> massive amounts of kernel patches like redhat) and a pvr250 card with
> the stable ivtv 0.1.9 drivers and have never rebooted due to a software
> problem.

I don't think it matters much at all what distro you're using. At the very 
least, I know using Red Hat/Fedora Core isn't a problem. My boxes are almost 
all RH and all are rock-solid, never a reboot for software problems here 
either, even with three capture cards in my master backend.

And for the record, most of those "massive amounts of kernel patches" are 
either 1) written by Red Hat and eventually accepted into the mainline 
kernel, or 2) stable patches from newer kernels back-ported to a known stable 
kernel.

With respect to 2.6 kernels, what you're saying there actually applies MUCH 
more to SUSE than Red Hat (last I looked, Mantel's kernel of the day for SUSE 
had over 1000 patches in it). RH doesn't deviate that much with their 2.6 
kernels, as things are accepted to the mainline kernel much faster nowadays 
(w/2.4, RH was back-porting stuff from 2.5/2.6).

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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