Re: PROBLEM: four bttv tuners in one PC crashed

[Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>]

On Tuesday 7 March 2006 12:50, Jiri Tyr wrote:
> Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> 
>  >I dont see anything suspicious conflict. But 'overlay' has been
>  >mentionned, I'm not familiar with that but I assume it means you're
>  >doing video grabs directly to the X display, right?
> 
> Yes, I'm using xawtv + overlay directly to the X display :0.0. Is better 
> way to use it with some WM (KDE, Gnome, ...)?
> 
>  >Then it could be a problem with the graphics card or its driver.
> 
> On the mainboard is graphics card Intel 915. I have tryed it with i810 
> (with / without DRI) and vesa driver. I have also tryed PCIE graphics 
> card from ATI. In all of those cases the PC freeze and as well as if is 
> in PCI slot only ONE tuner!
> 
>  >Just my 2 cents, because I am totally unfamiliar with such uses, sounds
>  >like a problem for the MythTV crowd.
> 
> I'm totally lost! I have here 25 PCs (100 tuners) what always freeze ;o(

Try using grabdisplay.  Also, if you hook up a serial console you may see
some helpful output when the pc freezes.

Ciao,

Duncan.
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