On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:50:02 -0500, Maverick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, since there seems to be a ton of people on the list lately > complaining about the lockup issues with PVR-350's, using TVout, I
the thing is that the lock ups happen even if we don't use TV Out. I don't I am on a monitor. > the system would just freeze. Having to reboot w/ the reset switch. If > we did it quick enough, we can bring the machines back to life by > causing the NIC (or maybe other PCI device?) to interrupt. So ping > flooding the NIC, or hitting enter at the SSH prompt on the box worked > magic. That's interesting. I could set up a monitor from another machine to try to flood the machine when ping fails.... Adding that to my TODO list. If someone writes one, let me know. > who knows. What I do know is, it works fine on "different" hardware, > yes, that was our fix! ... I can't do that... > My friend upgraded from the 533/VIA board to Compaq ATX board I had > laying around, it is a Athlon 600. He has since had no problems. What chipset was handling the DMA in these boards? > * Disable DMA on the HD I/O. It has the effect of slowing the box to a > crawl, beyond that, didn't "fix" the problem, because the box itself > was too slow... I am testing this right now. About 10 hours of uptime (among which 5h of Live TV) without lock. That's way over the best I could do before. It's not a proof but it tends to go in the direction of those saying that DMA is broken... Thanks for you list. Jerome
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