So... I bit the bullet after all my pain with the DMA errors and got a few new things. Since I got both a new hard drive and a new motherboard I decided to install them in parts to see if I could narrow things down.
I first put in the new drive and *didn't* use LVM to add the new video partition. Now it was straight JFS and the videos were on a separate drive. After working hard to crash it, it crashed (ok, I didn't work that hard). Then I installed the new motherboard, but kept using the older kernel with the 0.10.6 ivtv drivers (which were more reliable with what I was using). When it went a few days without crashing I switched to a newer kernel with the newer drivers (1.2.0). And yep, it's been running for over 2 weeks at this point without a problem. I don't know if it was the previously cheap mother board in general or the via chipset. But the new one (with a intel chip) set means stability finally. Phew. -- "In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find." -- Terry Pratchett _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
