[Cialug] alsa snd-atiixp with bt878

[David Champion]

I'm still having issues with my PVR-250 card. I can get everything to 
load, but I'm guessing there's a problem with the Tuner module or 
something... it will start the MythTV backend & frontend, and even let 
me change channels, but only shows snow. I haven't messed with it too 
much lately, I got frustrated with it and put it on the back burner.

<OT>
My current project is getting my WinXP PC restored. I've now lost my 2nd 
IBM / Hitachi Deskstar, the last one died 11 1/2 months ago, and the 
replacement they sent me is now out of warranty. I do move that PC 
around a lot - it's a Shuttle XPC I take to LAN parties. Last year it 
died right after I brought it home from an event. This time it started 
acting wonky about a week after an event. I try to be careful not to 
drop it or anything... so I'm kind of concerned about why this keeps 
happening.

Any suggestions for a good robust IDE drive? I used to hate Maxtors for 
this same reason (I had 3 fail in about a month span), and had great 
luck with IBM Deskstars. Now that I've been bitten twice on these, I'm 
tempted to try something else.
</OT>

-dc

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Did somebody say MythTV?  ;-)  Is that what you are working on Tom?
> 
> -Nate
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Champion [mailto:dave@visionary.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:13 AM
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] alsa snd-atiixp with bt878
> 
> 
> 
> Ah, yes. I was not using ALSA either. At that time, MythTV's 
> documentation was saying not to use ALSA because of problems like 
> this... I was using the OSS drivers.
> 
> It seems like ALSA is getting better, but it's still a bit flakey, IMHO.
> 
> -dc