Jon Dye wrote:
Simon at the Threshold wrote:
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[...]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.
I have also tried a vanilla 2.6.1 kernel with the built-in dvb drivers and this time the machine does not lock but the mythbackend process dies after a minute or so and the following appears in my logs: