On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have an ASUS A7A266 motherboard with the AliMagick1 chip set and I cannot get it
>to work reliably with xawtv. If xawtv is correctly set up, when run it displays a
>window and works just fine for a short time (one to thirty seconds) and then the
>whole computer freezes so hard that the reset button is required. (Sound keeps
>working fine though. :-/ )
>
Check which devices are sharing interrupts. I'd recommend playing
with the bios settings or moving cards around to make sure the
TV card isn't sharing an interrupt with anything else if /proc/pci
shows that it is.
Mark.
> This has been tested with the following components in various combinations all with
>the same result.
>
> display cards: nVidia GForce2 DDR
> ATI Radeon VE 32 DDR
>
> tuner cards: Turbo TV BT848
> TV Excel BT878
>
> sound card: AOpen AW744 Pro
>
> It is currently set up with linux kernel 2.4.9 and XFree86 4.1 (Debian "Woody") and
>it makes no difference whether I use dga or xv for the display. Before I compiled
>xawtv locally (version 3.62), using 'xawtv -nodga -xv' did not crash the computer,
>but produced just a black window. Getting xv to work resulted in an image followed by
>a frozen computer, same as for dga. The same thing happens with or without DRI
>enabled in X and the kernel.
>
> xawtv has worked fine for me in four other linux systems over the last three years,
>on various motherboards. This motherboard works perfectly in every other respect.
>
> Taking out the sound card does not prevent the problem, nor does setting interrupts
>in various combinations in the BIOS.
>
> Surely it has to be the motherboard (I'm using the latest BIOS), but before I start
>hassling ASUS, has anyone else got xawtv to work with this motherboard, or suffered a
>similar problem???
>
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