Hi there,

I´d try and disable all onboard hardware that´s not needed, if there is any.
Also try an switch PCI cards around to see if you can get the PVR 150 alone
on one bus, http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/5000x/index.htm

Good luck

/Henrik


On 7/28/07, Simon DiMaio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Hello All,
>
> I'm having a real uphill battle trying to get a PVR-150 card working on a
> new Dell Precision 690 machine. It looks like this is the dreaded DMA
> problem, and I realize that this issue has had a lot of airtime on this
> list. Therefore, I've spent a lot of time picking though the list archive
> trying many of the ideas and solutions that have already been suggested. No
> luck, unfortunately.
>
> In a nutshell, the ivtv driver is loading fine, firmware is fine, and I
> see /dev/video0, /dev/video24 and /dev/video32. A "cat /dev/video0 >
> test.mpg" streams <130kb and then simply stops. The message log is
> attached - showing ivtv initialization and the DMA errors that occur during
> the "cat". Further attempts to stream from the card yield 0 bytes. The only
> way to reset the card is to do a cold boot with quite a long wait time
> before restarting. After successfully resetting the card, I seem to be able
> to get a constant stream from "/dev/video32", but haven't been able to
> establish whether this is reliable. Next time I manage to get these things
> to start up correctly, I'll give it a try.
>
> System details:
> > uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:29:47 EST
> 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> /proc/interrupts, lspci and lsmod output attached.
>
> There are actually three PVR-150 boards in this machine at the moment (as
> seen in dmesg output), but have tried with one board in the machine at a
> time - no difference in symptoms.
>
> As you can see, I'm running an old 2.6.9 SMP kernel from RHEL4. We're
> somewhat stuck with this kernel due to project compatibility reasons. This
> explains why "ivtv 0.4.10". The machine has two quad-core processors,
> hence the SMP kernel.
>
> I've tried:
> 1) playing with the PCI latency numbers as suggested on this list,
> 2) stopping the cpuspeed service,
> 3) running in PIO mode (setting IVTV_ENC_PIO=1 does not seem to make any
> difference).
> 4) ivtv version 0.4.3.
>
> Has anybody experienced this issue lately? Any suggestions would be
> greatly appreciated, since I've now run out of ideas! :(
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Simon
>
>
>
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