From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 25 20:12:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3009916A419 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:12:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sean.west@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6ACE13C4C3 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:12:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sean.west@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so548447wra for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:12:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=C4SkTp06OHE8KcjVaTWeA4XJc8r6XCCndAvMbd26xa6F4SrA+o9yah9HMi15bMbVISwpMDea8zu6HMwyhCN80QXxudYyNDGuwsniTxAAdKI88y+0hhO/YxIT5bgbOrpmAE2HYcChoysT/TYLKeuKbXbLrpY2bRX2ZyniMv8aIY4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Z1RpJ5eX2tuX1o1XLDkFSvMW9wUTy1V3YlBadq5ywM/5/sEu5TO22VVxdPtnoDdRPPKYUw2t2787RNjQUPWTU8JMBqOk0QF2BXAR0wA4GoapnDuy7LMSG2pFhbqgc32zFBRd2KImkbR8mPxHeSB7io4j+b5pAQlPRX0oXdP8YQQ= Received: by 10.114.159.1 with SMTP id h1mr2323654wae.1174853542374; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:12:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.121.4 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:12:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50feecaf0703251312m52c7cd79p9392db778ed33b4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:12:22 -0700 From: "Sean West" To: "R. B. Riddick" In-Reply-To: <957626.19205.qm@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <50feecaf0703250944r2a373b13waad923d872701b93@mail.gmail.com> <957626.19205.qm@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.5, PVR500, MythTV svn X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:12:24 -0000 On 3/25/07, R. B. Riddick wrote: > --- Sean West wrote: > > patch (thanks usleep!). The only problem I'm having is that if I start > > reading from the cxm driver for more than say 30 seconds (it seems > > quite random), my computer reboots. It doesnt freeze and then reboot > > after a bit, it just reboots immediately. > > > I have the same problem. > > It seems to be hardware related (BIOS, IRQs, IDE-UDMA-mode, other devices). > > I know 2 cases on my 3 boxes (with 2 PVR-250): > 1. Whatever I try, it reboots after some seconds. > 2. On a certain BIOS (the main board has a Pentium 166MHz - so 1997 or so?) it > works stable, until I create heavy CPU load and disk load. > > So my advice would be: > 1. Try to move the cards around in the PCI slots, in order to get other IRQ > assignment. Just tried this. Didn't fix anything, and for some reason it gave cxm0 and cxm1 irq's 17 and 18 now... one more than what they were. > 2. Try to use as less hardware as possible. I striped out everything but the harddrive, video card, nic card and tv tuner. Still resulted in same irq's and rebooting. > 3. Try LINUX for TV recording (although I saw LINUX crashing with my TV card, > too)... :-) Actually, I currently have a Gentoo computer hooked up to my TV which had the PVR500 in it. That computer doesnt have the best specs, and it was too slow to watch a recording while it was recording something else. So I'm attempting to put this card in my FreeBSD box. The Gentoo computer worked great if I didnt watch a recording and record something at the same time. Never crashed on me once for the few months I was using the PVR500. Another little tidbit: it seems that if I do a cat /dev/cxm0 > /dev/null, it will go alot longer without rebooting. Thanks for your tips... Any other ideas?? Sean