tvtime locks machine solid

[Matt Patterson]

I have been fighting random freezes (hard freezes) of my dual athlon rig 
for a while with little assistance from others because very few people 
have duals, or at least very few have trouble that they report with 
duals. I think (knock on wood) I have solved my troubles. I have yet to 
upgrade to hoary (I'm on warty), but the measures that I have 
implemented are these:

disable AIC7xxx (scsi controller, onboard on my tyan thunder k7)
upgrade to backported 2.6.10 kernel WITHOUT inotify
in bios revert MPS mode to 1.1 instead of default 1.4

Quite honestly I think the fix was provided by the last change. I am not 
sure if you have this option in your bios, but give it a try.

Matt



R Kimber wrote:

>I've been using xawtv sucessfully and thought I would try tvtime, which
>gives better quality pictures.
>
>Tvtime starts up OK and does give good pictures, but quite soon after
>starting it up the whole machine locks up.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>I have:-
>Ubuntu 5.04 _Hoary Hedgehog_ - Release amd64
>2.6.10-5-amd64-k8-smp
>dual opteron 2GB
>Non-free Linux 2.6.10 modules (nvidia)
>nvidia FX5200
>WinTV Go
>
>Thanks
>-Richard
>  
>