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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu>
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To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, nirva@ishiboo.com
Subject: Re: Matrox Meteor errors
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>  ...  I have it
>  working almost flawlessly using sync mode on the meteor and
>  MIT SHM for the display. Except, it flashes or goes corrupt
>  when I get these error on console:
>  
>  meteor0: capture error: odd FIFO overflow.

you have a video card, Matrox capture, Buslogic and Adaptec SCSI on the
PCI bus. maybe you need to adjust your PCI Latency to make sure the Meteor
gets better service?

...

>  Also, I have nasty problem when using a package I found called
>  nv. The system just freezes when I increase the bandwidth or
>  keep it running for a long period of time (a few minutes).

Eeek, I haven't seen this since the Nepture PCI chipset. Maybe try changing
the latency, and/or even removing the buslogic adapter.

--mark.