On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:08:20 -0500, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run mythbackend on FC3 with a 1 GHz P3 and a pinnacle capture card, > and the system is generally unstable. I generally run my front end on > a 400 Mhz PII running KnoppMyth, and that system is more stable. > > I know this isn't terribly helpful, but I often run other apps (mostly > firefox and bittorrent) while mythbackend is running, and I get a lot > of system crashes.
= > > What I'm trying to say is, I don't believe FC3 is a terribly stable OS. > = I'd have to disagree there. My FC3 system is quite stable (though I'm wrestling w/ some issues, but none are related to FC3 or cause crashes). Aaron, what codec are you using (it would be in your recording profile under the LiveTV profile. MPEG-PS, DVD-SPECIAL2, another one? Have you tried changing those around to see if there's any difference in behavior? > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:29:27 -0800, Yan-Fa Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aaron Aguilar wrote: > > > First off thanks so much to this list and to Jared for helping me set > > > up a working mythtv box. My setup: > > > > > > AMD Duron 650Mhz > > > 384mb RAM > > > Samsung 160GB HDD > > > FX5200 > > > Hauppauge PVR250 > > > FC3 2.6.10kernel > > > > > > > Ugh. It could be so many things. Are you running a VIA chipset ? Have > > you checked the Capacitors on your board lately and are they leaking > > (Brown Goo) ? Do you have a decent power supply ? Have you checked the > > RAM lately with Memtest86 ? > > > > So many ways your system could be borked. It's possible you are > > triggering some weird race condition in myth due to a low-end cpu, but > > apparently people have run myth on PIIs so I doubt it. That's a fairly > > slow piece of gear these days. $99 bucks gets you a Sempron 2200 with > > motherboard if you shop around. > > > > I have myth running on a P3 933 quite well as a front end. Last time I > > had problems with the IVTV and a system it was because I had bad > > capacitors. Pulled it all and replaced it with a nforce2/sempron. > > Since then I fixed the bad caps on the old board and it runs reliably as > > a windows box. Haven't tested mythtv on it again. > > > > Good luck, > > > > Yan > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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