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 seeing the same thing with a Nova-T on a Gigabyte 7VT600-L (KT600
chipset) with gentoo, kernel 2.4.22 and the DVB 1.0.1 drivers. The
symptoms are that the box will lock with the caps lock and scroll lock
lights flashing, the Alt-SysRq- magic keys still work so I am able to
sync my disks and reboot. I am also using mythtv and the problem
appears to only occur when the application stops recording a program.