Re: Xawtv freeze my box (Ali Chipset) but TvTime plays perfect (BT878 card)

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arakeis <arakeis@xxxxxxx> writes:

> When using Xawtv on mu Ali chipset based box, it freeze to death,
> I already posted on this list but no solutions worked for me.
> Of course it works in grabdisplay mode but the quality is not
> up to the w2k one ... and I tried tvtime : and it's perfect
> quality smoothness and all.
> My question :  How tvtime manage not to crash my box ?

Its probably the PCI-PCI transfer which crashes your box due to
hardware bugs.  Updating your kernel to 2.4.21-pre might help,
recently some PCI quirk for ALI was added as workaround.

tvtime doesn't use overlay and thus no PCI-PCI transfers happen.
Same with xawtv in grabdisplay mode.

  Gerd

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