On Friday 11 July 2008 00:41, Wes Hardaker wrote:
> 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.
Good to hear. Bottom-line seems to be that the card's DMA engine
(already buggy to begin with) simply does not play nice with some
motherboards, VIA chipsets being most commonly mentioned. I think the
current driver is as good as it can get.
Regards,
Hans
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