On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 23:47 -0500, Keith C wrote: > On Sep 20, 2005, at 11:32 PM, Brad Babb wrote: > > > I may not have stated it clear enought but I have upgraded to the > > latest > > "stable" bios. > > > > > > Award P&P BIOS (Extension v1.0A) > > First I tried ivtv with - REV 1005A (original BIOS) > > then upgraded to REV 1009(latest stable update) > > > > > > > Sorry if we seem a little short on details. Older VIA chipsets have > some dma issue that frequently manifests itself as random reboots. > Some motherboard makers never released a BIOS fix for their boards. > For example, the KT266A board I have from MSI never did work with my > PVR-250. >
No problem. I didn't think your were short on details. I imagine there are a lot of request that can be fixed with a BIOS update (at least according to the archives). Is there anything else I should look for to trouble shoot this problem? Do you know if the dma issues are purely software related or is there something strange happening with the hardware? I don't know if I'd have the time but can you point me to some documentation about debugging PCI and/or DMA problems under linux? I have done some PCI related programming (mostly under Windows) for work and I may be able provide some better feedback about the problem or a fix. > > > > > > Is this the proper list to post for help with throubleshooting ivtv? > > > Yes, it is. And we'll do what we can. Random reboots are > unfortunately hard to diagnose and its easy to point a finger at a > known problem, the KT133 and KT266 chipsets. As for a replacement > board, you do not have to use Intel chipsets, I find that my nVidia > chipsets work very well under Linux. > > > Keith C Any help you can provide would be appreciated. I'm just wondering if switching to another motherboard with an Intel or nVidia chipset would be a better solution than trying to troubleshooting the problem with my current hardware setting. It seems that the VIA chipsets have had problems like this for a while under Linux (from reading around on various Linux forums) and I'm sure much smarter people than me have tried to work on the problem. Thanks, Brad ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
