[mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500 for $127 shipped on Amazon

[Garry Cook]

On 5/25/05, Xiaotian Sun <sun.xiaotian at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/25/05, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/25/05, Xiaotian Sun <sun.xiaotian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 5/25/05, james houston <jesushouston at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > Check it out here:
> > > >
> > > > http://tinyurl.com/92kh8
> > > >
> > > > Looking thru the archives it seems some people have
> > > > gotten this card to work perfectly and others have
> > > > only gotten static from it.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone care to weigh in...
> > >
> > > I'm getting good pictures, but having IRQ/DMA troubles using the
> > > latest 0.3.x development driver.  It spits out
> > >
> > > ivtv: IRQ: IVTV_IRQ_DEC_DMA_ERR
> > >
> > > message from time to time and causes machine lock-up.
> >
> > Xiaotian ,
> >
> > what motherboard and chipset are you using?
> 
> ASUS Pundit-R, which uses ATI IXP200 chipset.  Some people were saying
> change PCI slots may help in this situation.  But for Punidt-R, this
> is really not an option, due to the physical limitations.  The two
> cards I have (PVR-500 and pcHDTV-3000) can only be fit into the box in
> one configuration.
> 
> I've been trying various bios config and kernel parameters, such as
> enabling/disabling io-apic , enabling pci=routeirq, etc.  No help.
> 
> Xiaotian

I'm using a PVR-500MCE, along with two PVR-250s, one of these is an
MCE also. All of these I picked up on ebay. At first, I did have
troubles which appeared to be related to IRQ sharing. My box is a Dell
GX260, P4 1.8 Ghz. After switching slots a few times, and upgrading
the BIOS (A03->A09, quite a jump), everything works together
perfectly.
Unfortunately, due to frustration and stupidity on my part, I was not
very methodical in my testing, so I'm not sure if I finally found the
correct IRQ settings, the correct PCI slots, or if the fix was simply
due to the BIOS upgrade.
IVTV driver 3.2r

--Garry