On Mon, November 19, 2007 8:39 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > You still have DMA problems, it's just that they are being covered up by slowing everything down. The hard drive is supposed to support up to UDMA mode 5. The kernel algorithm specified for the IDE drivers > specifies an automatic backoff when errors are encountered. > > The errors for the ivtv driver indicate that there are DMA problems with your PVR-150 card also. > > Not all VIA motherboards are bad, it's only certain ones. As a matter of fact, I just changed my MythTV motherboard to that one I mentioned in another thread about the Walmart PC. The board is working great. Specs on the board are here: > <http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/empowered/pc2500_mainboard/index.jsp> > > Gus
Thanks, Gus. This kind of guidance is why I come here. Google tells me that I might land MB and CPU for ~$100. That I can swing (I'll put the cats on ebay). It also looks to my untrained eye like I can move memory and my 2 pvr-150s over. The on-board sound and video should be good to go. Are you able to utilize the on-board mpeg2 HW decoding? That would be cool. Could you confrm the above guesses? Also, where is the best place to shop for this? Fry's <tremble>? CCC? Other? The discarded parts could probably be stitched together to make a reasonable Linux desktop or even home server. I've wanted to experiment with CentOS. Or, my beloved granny user could use an upgrade. I have options. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
