On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 20:22 -0400, JP Fournier wrote: > > > > Since it seems that the PVR-500 alone may be to blame for your > > spontaneous reboots, I have an idea that I *hope* can fix your problem. > > Use setpci to disable SERR reporting on the primary interface by the > > PVR-500's bridge device, by clearing a bit in the primary command > > register. > > > > # setpci -s 00:0c.0 COMMAND <---- read the command reg > > 0107 > > # setpci -s 00:0c.0 COMMAND=0007 <---- write back with P_SERR disabled > > # setpci -s 00:0c.0 COMMAND <---- read back to see flag cleared > > 0007 > > > > Now the Hint Corp Bridge (now called a PLX PCI6254 (HB6), I think) > > shouldn't report SERR's on the primary interface. Hopefully that will > > keep the VIA chips (or Linux?) from causing a spontaneous reboot. > > Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately it didn't stop the reboot > from happening.
Well without the VIA chipset datasheets, the only suggestion I have left is this: Update the motherboard BIOS to the latest version, or if it's already at the latest version, reset the ESCD data. Regards, Andy > regards, > > jp _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
