O, third post in a row, but something just hit me. To the best of my knowledge the bttv drivers are used for the Hauppage win-pci cards, not the win-pvr cards. The win-pci cards use a software-based encoder; the win-pvr cards use the hardware based encoder.

I now suspect that the second card is a win-pci card. If this is the case, you may be able to solve your problem by simply purchasing a second hauppuage PVR-150 card.

In terms of the dual-tuner card, I believe what you are looking for is the Hauppauge PVR-500 card. This card comes with 2 tuners. However, I suggest you do some forum searching before you purchase it -- I seem to recall seeing some indicating that it requries some fiddling to get it to work properly.

Marc

I've been having random lockups for the last year.

When my machine locks up, I get a black screen with repetative white garbage across it. The garbage often looks like chopped-off text characters.
see http://www.geocities.com/neutron68/pict ... MG4436.JPG
This particular lockup occurred before the machine even finished booting into Knoppmyth!

Often, I can get the KM machine to lockup if I start the MythArchive application. I usually get to the end of the file selection process and then hit the CREATE DISC button before it locks up. It never even gets to the part of the process where the dvd-r drive starts the disc burn.

To date, I have replaced the pc power supply, DDR RAM sticks, the Asus motherboard, the AMD processor and all the IDE ribbon cables. Nothing I've swapped thus far has stopped the lockups.
At present, I am scanning the hard drives in my KM box and coming up with SMART errors on both. I'm using Spinrite 6 to do the scans.

A friend who is more familiar with Red Hat and Fedora Core Linux, says that when Linux encounters a hardware problem, it drops to a command line or text screen and gives kernel panic messages. I've never seen kernel panic messages from Knoppmyth.

I wonder if the black screens with white garbage I see when my machine locks up are Knoppmyth's attempt to get to a command line screen and give me a kernel panic message? What would Knoppmyth do if a bad hard drive started giving errors - lockup or drop to a command line screen?

Eric

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

neutron68, you may find the screen you are getting is the computer trying to display the command line. If you have a nVidia video card and have bootsplash on this is a known problem with command line.

You could try turning bootsplash off and see if you get the console next time the computer locks up.

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Girkers

Hi Girkers,

Good idea on the bootsplash. I do use the nvidia graphics chip on the motherboard and I already had the bootsplash disabled. I found that I like to see the boot text scrolling up the screen. I feel a little more in tune with the machine that way.

Also, I think I have found the source of the lockups - the boot hard drive - a 60GB Western Digital IDE drive made in 2001. It has become flakey. I am in the process of cloning that drive to another drive (using Ghost 2003) so I won't to lose my database, settings, etc.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... highlight=

I'm encountering a different set of unknowns with that avenue. The LILO fix process following a clone with Ghost 2003 isn't working like it did with R5C7 a year ago. I have not figured out why yet. I'm pounding on it and hoping for a breakthrough or a lightbulb moment.

Eric

Followup:
I got it solved!

The lockups: It turned out to be a failing hard drive that was causing the system lockups!! The drive would momentarily spin down and disconnect itself from the IDE chain. Knoppmyth didn't like that and locked up!

The Ghost 2003 problem: It looks like Ghost 2003 can't properly copy an ext3 drive partition. The LILO fix didn't work because the drive content was not properly copied, so I found a new GUI drive clone package - Acronis True Image 10.
Follow the link above for the details.

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

Ok, just wanted to close out this thread for my original problem. I ended up getting a second PVR-150 and replaced the bttv card. I've been running for a few weeks with no lockups, so it appears that the problem was an IRQ conflict between the original PVR-150 and bttv.

That's great news!

So, how did you manage to get the 2 tuner cards on different IRQs? You said you only had 2 pci slots in your motherboard. Was it by disabling various motherboard devices? Was there a "correct" arrangement of the 2 cards in the 2 slots? Did you disable Plug And Play in your BIOS so you could manually assign IRQs to the slots?

Curious,
Eric

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

No, I just replaced the bttv with the second pvr-150. My understanding is that by default PCI slots share IRQs and most devices play well together. However, it seems that the bttv and PVR-150 didn't like each other.