Hi all. Sorry if this winds up being a dupe, I send the first message
from the wrong account (I'm using mozilla, so it's easy to do). I've got
a bt878 tuner (ATI TV wonder VE, also have an old STB TV PCI bt848 with
the same issues), soundblaster live 5.1, and 3com cyclone ethernet card
(eth0) on an Asus nforce2 board (A7N8X) with a Geforce2mx. On board
sound is disabled in the bios, on board ethernet is running as eth1. If
the tv tuner is not in use (i.e. I haven't started xawtv or motv)
everything's fine. A few seconds after I start up motv/xawtv either the
tv tuner, sound card or ethernet will stop working. The tuner's image
will freeze, the sound card will start playing static or the ethernet
just won't connect (I'm on broadband). I'm running mandrake 9.1 with a
kernel 2.4.21-0.25 with these parameters:
hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi noapic acpi=off pci=noacpi
Not sure if the pci=noapic does anything worthwhile, but my system is
completely useless without the acpi=off line.
Moving the card around seems to change which device goes dead, but no
matter where I put it one card will go dead. I've managed to get it to
the point where there are no IRQ conflicts but that didn't help. Right
now the tv card is sharing an irq with usb-ohci. My /proc/interrupts:
CPU0 0: 58151 XT-PIC timer
1: 3942 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 26 XT-PIC usb-ohci, bttv
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 12102 XT-PIC ehci-hcd, eth1
11: 37089 XT-PIC eth0, EMU10K1
12: 49692 XT-PIC usb-ohci, nvidia
14: 22889 XT-PIC ide0
15: 149 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 58118
ERR: 20
MIS: 0
My modules.conf:
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
probeall usb-interface usb-ohci ehci-hcd
alias eth0 3c59x
above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
alias char-major-195 nvidia
alias eth1 nvnet
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv card=64 tuner=17
I pulled these lines from the docs, I've also tried letting the driver
detect the card by adding bttv to /etc/modules. Same problems.
Reloading the driver doesn't help, only rebooting. I have no idea what
the cause/solution might be. Can someone with more hardware experience
give me some insight? Does anyone have this working on a simular set up?
I read about some options in the README.quirks files triton1 and vsfx?)
but I'm not sure how to enable them or how to check if they're enabled.
Thanks again .
Jeremy Gregorio
