On 2/6/07, David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jason, > > On 2/5/07, Jason Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The question comes down to: Does anyone have a Dual Socket A > > motherboard that doesn't get DMA errors? It seems like the cheapest > > solution is to look for an old Tyan as a replacement, but I'd like to > > know that someone _has_it_working_ before I plunk down the cash. > > I am running a dual processor athlon mp 2400 as my myth backend using a hauppage pvr 250. Like a year ago had problems with DMA which resulted in random blocky artifacts in the mpegs. After disabling DMA I have not had a single problem since and I have recorded > 1 TB of programming since without any problems. I am using gentoo sources 2.6.13-r3 and ivtv-0.4.3
# uname -a Linux jmd0 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP Sat Jan 21 12:30:25 EST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux # cat ivtv-0.4.3-pio.patch --- ivtv-0.4.3/driver/ivtv-driver.old.h 2006-01-15 14:03:04.000000000 -0500 +++ ivtv-0.4.3/driver/ivtv-driver.h 2006-03-07 03:07:54.000000000 -0500 @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ #define IVTV_DEC_PIO 1 #else #define IVTV_VBI_PIO 0 -#define IVTV_ENC_PIO 0 +#define IVTV_ENC_PIO 1 #define IVTV_DEC_PIO 0 #endif /* This sometimes times out, seems to kill John _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
