I seem to recall posts a month or two ago to this list or to the mythtv lists about some potential bios updates in testing (from via) to deal with DMA issues with certain mainboard and pci card combinations.
Might want to search the archives at gossamer-threads for the intersection of 'dma' and 'via'. -brendan On Sat, 28 May 2005, Chris Kennedy wrote: > This happens on certain mother boards, mainly VIA, and I think I have the same > one you do, what joy it is. Yeah, seems these boards are just too much > something for certain motherboards unfortunately, so some of us get unlucky > and don't get them into certain systems, sucks but seems like either VIA > or Hauppauge would be to blame here for some incompatibility, unless the > Windows driver works???. > > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 09:05:27PM +0200, Niklas Brunlid wrote: > > Recently got a PVR500 MCE PAL that I promptly installed in my MSI 694T Pro > > mainboard (Via Apollo Pro 133 chipset). It runs Gentoo with the standard > > 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 kernel and a few extras on a Celeron 1.4GHz > > > > It sporadically reboots when encoding data, with anything from a few > > seconds to 10-15 minutes of video recorded. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
