[linux-dvb] Nova-T pCI hangup/freeze

[Simon at the Threshold <dweller@the-threshold.org>]

Hello there,

I hope somebody can help me, I've been attempting to build my own PVR
app and after an inital play with a PVR-250 via ivtv I decided that I'd
go for a living room app using a couple of Budget Nova-T DVB-T PCI cards.

Although I am no stranger to unix and am quite happy to compile and play
with drivers I am not an experianced kernel developer. If anyone can
offer up any debug flags or options so I can get to the bottom of this
problem.

I've installed the current drivers (1.0.1) on my box (an Athlon 2.4ghz
Duron on a KV7 motherboard) and pretty much from the start I've had hang
ups and system freezes. No logs that I can see the main symptom is the
box is dead (even the keyboard interupt appears to be dead). From the
heat generated from the CPU its stuck in a loop of death.

If I simply load the dvb files then nothing happens but as soon as I run
up the mythtv backend which does scheduled recoding and live tv the
system will go down with 15 mins. I'm currently running tests with
dvbstream to see how long I can run and see if the box freezes. After
all it maybe something mythtv is doing.

I am currently using the aptrpms kernel 2.4.22-1.2140.nptl_30.rhfc1.at

my lspci -v is
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host
Bridge (rev
80)
        Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1408
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 8
        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.5
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00
[Norma
 decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: e0000000-e1ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-d7ffffff
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:08.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH: Unknown device 1011
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
        Memory at e2001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]

00:09.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH: Unknown device 1011
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]

00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc: Unknown
device
016 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4009
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3149
(rev 8
)
        Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1408
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at 9000 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 9400 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 9800 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 9c00 [size=4]
        I/O ports at a000 [size=16]
        I/O ports at a400 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A
C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1408
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        I/O ports at a800 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81) (prog-if 00
[UHCI])





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