[mythtv-users] What is the best distro / kernel version /ivtv version for mythtv

[Gerald Schepens]

I could be totally wrong about this, but that kernel is nearly a year
old, and I think that may be why it works well.  There was something
with 2.6.23 or 2.6.24 where they redid a bunch of the ivtv stuff and at
that point, although some things worked way better, some other subtle
things seemed to go a bit south, i.e. the buffer / "application not
reading data fast enough" thing.

Not sure what the kernel version was on centOS but my i386 fedora 8 box
(already a version behind) is 2.6.24.5.  My x86_64 on f9 is 2.6.25-14
(but I would recommend waiting another month before doing anything with
f9, particularly if you're running an nvidia graphics card).

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 20:46 -0400, Chris Isip wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Gordon McCrae
> <gordon-mccrae at bluebottle.com> wrote:
>         
>         Chris Isip wrote:
>         > What combination of the above have people tried with the
>         best
>         > results.  I'm trying to find the combination that will get
>         rid of dma
>         > timeout errors.
>         >
>         > Thanks
>         > Chris
>         >
>         
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>         Can happily report that my openSuSE 10.3 system autodetected
>         the IVTV
>         card fine on my system.
>         
>         I use it to watch feed from Sky TV here in the UK without
>         problems.
>         
>         Kernel is "2.6.22.17-0.1-default" from automatic updates, and
>         the
>         following IVTV rpms are installed:
>         
>         ivtv-firmware-0.10.3-37
>         ivtv-kmp-default-0.10.3_2.6.22.17_0.1-37.1
>         ivtv-0.10.3-37
>         
>         Again, from automatic updates, no manual tweaking.
>         
>         Cheers
>         Gordon
>         
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> I used to run myth in Centos 5.1 and I got DMA issues there.  It was a
> xen kernel.  I am running it in an  ubuntu  hardy domU  now and  while
> the dma  issues are less, they are still there.
> 
> I have a Dell e510 PC and both a PVR 250 and PVR 500.
> 
> Thanks
> Chris 
> 
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