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

[John Drescher]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Chris Isip <cmisipster at gmail.com> 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.
>

You could keep your kernel disable ivtv and use the bleeding edge
driver (which is kernel independent):

http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download#Bleeding_Edge_driver

I have been running this since December and I have not seen a single
dma timeout. Since this is a live source I have upgraded this several
times since then. My ivtv version is currently 1.2.1

# dmesg | grep ivtv
[   53.779987] ivtv:  Start initialization, version 1.2.1
[   54.011199] ivtv0: Initializing card #0
[   54.011204] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
[   54.067888] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
[   54.169096] cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-24 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   54.170269] tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   54.170287] wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   54.278599] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
[   54.278617] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
[   54.278632] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
[   54.278648] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
[   54.278652] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
[   54.278749] ivtv:  End initialization
[  100.044007] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
[  100.243540] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039


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John M. Drescher