From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri May 9 15:45:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA03204 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 9 May 1997 15:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA03197 for ; Fri, 9 May 1997 15:45:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA14857; Fri, 9 May 1997 16:45:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199705092245.QAA14857@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: Ralph Thomas Aussem cc: Randall Hopper , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, Richard Tobin Subject: Re: Problems with bt848 in FreeBSD 2.2.1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 May 1997 23:21:02 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 16:45:22 -0600 Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > At the moment I have the main problem that the computer freezes > after some seconds I started fxtv.. So testing is very dangerous :-( I used to have freeze problems till I adjusted some BIOS values, my previous mail on the topic: >I just moved my tv card from a gigabyte MB to an asus MB and had it >hang very easily shortly after starting fxvt. To make it happy I had to change >3 settings in the BIOS: > > PCI streaming: OFF > video BIOS cache: OFF > vga/pci pallette snoop: OFF > >with these settings it has run for 3 days straight without hang. >I tried different combinations of the above but with any 1 or more >of them enabled it hung within several seconds to several minutes >after starting fxtv. I have uptime measured in weeks now without any problems! -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD