[ivtv-devel] Most supported distro

[Brent Kilgore]

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I have been trying to get the knoppmyth distro with the PVR350 (tuner 47) working with no avail.  I am down to it working as long as I don’t ff or rw.  Then it freezes with what appears to be DMA deadlock/conflict between the HD and the decoder device.  If I tickle another device on the system bus somehow (usually sending a packet through network card) it will unfreeze….wonder if I disable hd DMA… I’m running 1% cpu usage when watching live tv.  I should be able to absorb the cpu load. .. worth a try anyway.   But anyways  my questions   So, Now I’m down to 3 options I can easily see:   1:  Try the 2.6 kernel which is supposed to handle DMA better.  I’ve got it compiled and installed but when I try to boot with it it gives me “inittab not found”.  Any easy fixes for this?   2:  Try another distro.  I’m looking at a full Debian install, but knoppix is based on debian.  Will this make a difference?  Any other recommendations?   3:  Build a new computer for it.  Right now it’s running on a hand me down 700 celeron dell. I was looking at a barebones AMD XP 1800+ that I found for about $150-200.  This brings about the question.  Can I just take the linux system disk from my old and expect it to work in the new system without reinstall.  Does linux have that nasty HAL like windows does?  Also, Is there any specific hardware setups that someone would recommend?  I would like small, quiet, and CHEAP as possible (gamecube sized?) Is there any motherboards I should avoid like the plague (no I’m not touching an ECS chipset mobo, they pissed me to much with tech support)     Thanks again, Brent     P.S:  Sorry again for screwing up the domain name.  It is now ivtv.no-ip.INFO.