[mythtv-users] PVR 250 & VIA question

[mythtv_user]

I had a very similiar problem wih my via k-133 MB, 0.15, and the ivtv 
drivers on axel's site. (see my previous posts -- 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/70388?search_string=sec;#70388 
)
I think I have the freezing fixed now using Chris Kennedy's latest ivtv 
patch:
http://kmos.org/~ckennedy/ivtv/

applied to knoppMyth R4V4 by using these instructions:

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=804&start=15
(Note: kernel source is compressed in R4V4 and needs to be uncompressed 
in /usr/src before applying those instructions)

However, I am seeing some occassional ghosting now in live tv even with 
DNR off.  If I exit from watching tv back to the myth menu and then go 
back to live tv it seems to go away for a few hours.
Also, I get a lot of what look like mpeg artifacts now with this driver 
that I didn't have when I was running 0.14 myth and an older version of 
ivtv (not sure of the exact version of the older driver, but it was 
whatever axel was distributing around the time 0.14 was released)


Mike Drons wrote:

>Can you recommend a motherboard/chipset?  
>
>The 5-10 minute crashes is exactly what I get.  It is weird that it only
>crashes when I am watching in mythtv.  If I just cat the /dev/video0 with
>mplayer it runs for hours.
>
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Coax [mailto:coax at cornernet.com] 
>Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 12:52 PM
>To: mdrons at ins.com; Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 250 & VIA question
>
>Don't bother.
>
>Its a bugged via chipset.  You'll get crashes on captures every 5-10
>minutes. (Although apparently, the ivtv guys are trying to work around
>this problem in software right now with the latest driver revisions.)
>
>Find a motherboard that does NOT have a VIA K*-133* or K*-266* chipset on
>it.  You'll be a lot happier.
>
>Chad
>
>
>  
>
>>Does anyone have a PVR 250 working with the following hardware/chipset?
>>
>>(from lspci)
>>Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
>>PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
>>ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
>>IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
>>VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
>>Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
>>
>>I deleted the network card, pvr card, and nvidia video card, but if it
>>matters I can include it.
>>
>>Does anyone have any known things I need to do special to get this to work
>>or is it a basic installation.  I would run Gentoo with a 2.6 kernel.
>>
>>Should I use enable agp support in the kernel?
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>
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