[mythtv] I am having major problems with pchdtv-3000, cable and svn mythtv.

[Dylan Semler]

On 11/14/06, Harley Peters <harley at hpeters.net> wrote:
>
> Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 16:00 -0600, Harley Peters wrote:
> >> Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> >>> Dylan, your problem is almost certainly due to a motherboard
> >>> chipset problem. To work around it you will want to make sure
> >>> that the pcHDTV card and your video card do not share an
> >>> interrupt and you will want to extend your PCI latency to
> >>> at least 64 for the pcHDTV card, and reduce the PCI latency
> >>> for the video card (especially if it is not an AGP card).
> >>> Making the cards not share an interrupt may require changing
> >>> which slots on the motherboard they are plugged into if you
> >>> can not rearrange them in the BIOS settings. If you have any
> >>> further questions reply on the user's list and BCC me so I
> >>> don't miss the post there.
> >
> Something must of changed some where (not mythtv) as this setup used to
> work.


This certainly is an obscure beast.  In the past, I've tried removing all
other PCI cards to reduce the chance of a conflict, I've tried unplugging my
extra hard drive and my optical drives to see if it was a power supply
issue.  I too have changed the latencies with no avail.  I've tried a number
of different nvidia drivers and kernels (all kernels since
2.6.17-2142_FC4and nvidia drivers since 7676).  The only success I
have had is reverting
back to my old GeForce 4200 (I run a 6200 now although I've seen this
problem reported with other 6xxx cards).  The problem does not exist with
this old card, unfortunately with the old card I no longer get XvMC and am
no longer able to watch HD.  So I'm less convinced it's a chipset issue.
Anyways I know this is an OT users-list issue, but since there are others
with this problem I just thought I'd share this information here.


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Dylan

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