[vdr] Re: system freeze when using overlay!?

[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaie@db.fmi.uni-passau.de>]

Hi!

On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 21:39, Stephan Martin wrote:
> > do you have the same motherboard?
> 
> nope. I have a Epox 8KHA+ (VIA KT266A) and a Matrox G450.
> 
> I don't know, what I could do about it.
> So I stop using overlay mode after and writing a few emails
> and testing diffrent bios-options, X configurations, X versions
> viewer programs as xawtv, tuxview and
> lots of new drivers...
I had this board, too (~2 years ago). At this time with a Hauppauge PVR
and Windows. I had much trouble with overlay as you describe: Watching
TV/recording and HDD activity computer freezed. I tried everything I
found on the net, but I was not able to solve it. I could reproduce it
exactly, if I watched TV and copied a file > 100MB. I guess it had to do
something with the known bugs of KT266A chipset (I even found a site
that had this kind of problems as a stability criterion for mainboards -
as far as I remember not many boards passed this test). I managed to
make it somewhat more stable by increasing PCI latency values and using
the latest VIA drivers. But, problems did not completely disappear. I
solved it by switching to a new board (KT333) and the problems were gone
without any further changes (I did not even make a new install)...


Regards,
Bernhard
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Dipl.-Inf. Bernhard Stegmaier    Lehrstuhl für Dialogorientierte Systeme
Tel. +49 851 5093064             Universität Passau, FMI Raum 209
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