A quick question. After total frustration with ivtv hanging up my pvr250 knoppmyth system, I'm going to scrap my AMD mobo with its VIA KT266 chipset. As far as I know, there is no fix (I even triied using a PCI UltraDMA IDE card, I still got a mythbackend hang).

From the mythlog:
":2004-08-30 04:02:49 Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15 seconds. Game over, man."

I'm buying a little Intel celeron box (2.4Ghz). It has a VIA VT8235 chipset.

My question is: Do all VIA chipsets have a problem with the DMA load of ivtv/mythtv, or is it just the VIA chipsets for AMD CPUs?

not sure about your question, but I've got one of my own.

why get all new mb/processor when you could go get an nforce based mb and keep everything else?

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Have a question search the forum and have a look at the KnoppMythWiki.

Xsecrets

i have expressed my opions about via several times on this forum so i wont go into it agian, except to say.. No not all via chipsets have a problem.. 400 and above have never had a problem that i have seen. i use via for all my 5 myth systems. all are newer ~1year or so.

OK,
Just a bit scared--heard nvidia nforce 2 had ivtv problems, via chipset has problems. I'm gunshy
Please give me a recommendation for a good AMD microATX mobo...

As far as I'm aware, the nforce 2 works fine. If you search the forum, you'll see this time and again. My personal recommendation is only on the forum.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

OK, I ordered an nforce 2 MB for my athlon. It even has video out, so I'll have a video card to reuse. If I plan right, I can always have almost enough hardware left over to start yet another linux project--it drives my wife nuts

I thought I'd read about ivtv having problems with nforce due to ACPI or LAPIC incompatibility--tjough in retrospect, it looks like most of those were relatively old threads.

--splash

The issue was with APIC/LAPIC... This hasn't been an issue since R4V3. What is this wife thing I keep hearing about?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I have a wife, its an older model....no linux support.

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R5F1 - Dell P4 2.4Ghz 500MB - PVR250 x 2 - GeForce FX 5200 - Onboard sound/NIC 80GB ATA/250GB ATA/400GB SATA