On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 21:24:15 -0000 (GMT)
"Linux TV homemaillist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks - here's what I've discovered.
> 
> Before ivtv has been 'modprobed' the latency timer is set to 32:
> 02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Unknown device e807
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
>         Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> 
> 02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Unknown device e817
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
>         Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> 
> after, it's set to 64:
> 02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Unknown device e807
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 209
>         Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> 
> 02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Unknown device e817
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 177
>         Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> 
> 
> I tried setting it to 128 - but the machine still locks up when I 'cat
> /dev/video0' etc.
> 
> nothing's ever easy!!!!
> 
> Any ideas??

Yes, walk away from buggy VIA chipsets.  I know you don't want to hear
that, but frankly.. I have several VIA boards here that I can't use the
PVR-500 etc on.

Switching to an Intel motherboard resolved the problems, each time.

> 
> 
> > On 2/1/07, Linux TV homemaillist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> The SK43G has no facility to adjust PCI-latency in the BIOS, so I
> >can't > try that.
> >
> > Do you know set_pci? I used it to fine-tune the pci-latencies on my
> > mythpc:
> > setpci -s [pci_id] latency_timer=[latency]
> >
> > (First do a lspci -v to see current latencies and pci_ids)
> >
> >
> > Grt.
> > Martin
> >
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> >
> 
> 
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