[ale] IDE controller cards

[John Wells]

Calvin Harrigan said:
> On Thursday 01 January 2004 11:42 am, John Wells wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> I'm having DMA-related problems with a capture card I have, and someone
>> mentioned that the KT-x33 chipsets (my mb is a kt333) have problems with
>> DMA and linux.
>
> I only know of the KT-133 chipset having trouble with DMA.
> It's been a heavily discussed issue on the mythtv mailing lists.
> I have a kt333 chipset MB that works fine with a hauppauge pvr-250 capture
> card in windows and linux.
>
> What kind of errors are you getting?

Frequent mythfrontend freezes on my mythtv box with the latest version of
ivtv and using the PVR-350's tvout.  Here's a typical log entry:

Dec 30 08:25:52 margar1taville kernel: saa7115[0]: decoder set size Dec 30
08:25:52 margar1taville kernel: Hpsc: 0x00001, Hfsc: 0x00600 Dec 30
08:25:52 margar1taville kernel: Setting full NTSC height
Dec 30 08:26:07 margar1taville kernel: ivtv: EOS interrupt not received!
stopping anyway.
Dec 30 08:26:16 margar1taville kernel: ivtv: EOS interrupt not received!
stopping anyway.
Dec 30 08:32:41 margar1taville kernel: ivtv: Got DMA-done, but not
expecting one

I was talking with kevin thayer (tmk) on the ivtv-dev mailing list, and he
mentioned the problem with kt-133, 233, etc and that it might have
something to do with my kt-333 chipset.  I'm not entirely convinced, but
willing to try the controller card to get at the 350's surperior tv-out
capabilities (spectacular, compared to my Geforce-2...)

Thanks for your input!  Wish you had the PVR-350 so I could verify this
problem ;)