[vdr] Re: Error on 2. DVB card

[René Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

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From: "Joerg Riechardt" <J.Riechardt@gmx.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:02 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Error on 2. DVB card


> René Bartsch wrote:
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> > Depends on the quality of the board manufacturer and the IRQ-sharing of the PCI-slots.
> >
> > Take a ASUS-board with an good old 440BX and everything works fine ...
>
> I have one (P2B).
> But read dvbforum.de. Most people have problems with shared interrupts, except one case
> (yours): when both DVBs cards share the interrupt.
> And even with the P2B I had problems, when I had ACPI under windows ...
>
> Jörg
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Windoof! (-doze) often has PCI - problems because of buggy drivers! (I've used THAT MICROSOFT BUG for nine years, and I'm glad I've
turned to linux in April ...)!

I'm using a ASUS CUBX with a 440BX and I don't have any problems (except linux makes trouble with 1 Gb RAM and DivX has a SSE Bug -
and of course, it's the board !!! ;o) ).

I also had a P2B-LS before and it worked fine, when the DVB-Cards didn't share Interrutps with the onboard components.

As for there are no information about IRQ and slots in the PDF-manual on ASUS' homepage, I've taken it together from my CUBX and
P2B-LS (hope it's someway the same with the P2B).

Before reconfiguring, you should consider that there had been produced boards which have PCI-slot 1 below the AGP and count down 2,
3, and 4 at the lower edge of the board and there are versions, which have PCI-slot 4 below the AGP and count down 3, 2, and 1 at
the lower edge of the board (above the ISAs).
Don't trust the manual in that way!!! I tested some month until I found that problem.


At first, go to the BIOS and set your IDEs to ISA! They will use IRQ 14 and 15 now and not one of the four PCIs.

Set the PCI-slot 1 (shares resources with AGP) to IRQ 9, slot 2 to IRQ 10, slot 3 to IRQ 11 and slot 4 to IRQ 5 (if  USB shares slot
3, turn 3 and 4).

Add the cards in the following order:

AGP or PCI-slot 1: graphic card
            PCI-slot 2: DVB
            PCI-slot 3: DVB
            PCI-slot 4: ISDN (if USB shares slot 3, turn 3 and 4, so that USB and ISDN share IRQs. If you don't need USB, disable it
...)

Rene