On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 08:37, Roland Praml wrote: > Hi there. > > > > Hm, is it *always* the 2G limit (-> possible pointer arithmetic bug), > > > or do the sizes vary? > > Thanks, Johannes > > > > Experiment has shown that it is approximate, sometimes lots more > > sometimes lots less. > > I bought a new mainboard and now I've the same problem. > > My hardware: > Asus P4s533, Celeron 2GHz > 1 DVB-s rev. 1.3 > 1 DVB-s NOVA > > Kernel 2.4.20 > > The system is running fine if only the DVB-s is inserted. > If I want to use my NOVA card the system crashes in < 1 hour (most time < 10 > minutes) > > I tried: > - different PCI slots > - use ONLY the nova-card > - don't start VDR -> the system seems to stay stable if nothing access the > card > - then I started the "scan" utility -> crash after ~ 1 minute > > Result: I think my card got broken. > > > However, adding "noapic" to the lilo command line along with the > > watchdog option produced a very slow but completely (over 4 hours of TV > > modules installed and running) machine. > > You give me some hope: I'll try that today
That got me no-where. The machine still crashed. However, I now have it working - up already for 48 hours! I selected "failsafe" settings in the BIOS, which turns off every accelerating feature in the BIOS. I now have to re-enable them one-by-one until I find out which one is causing problems. This will take some time, I think! Alistair -- Alistair Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
