On Sunday 31 July 2005 00:17, David Johnson wrote: > As I'm watching TV, I'm getting lots of the following messages in demsg: > bt878(0): irq FDSR FBUS risc_pc=1fc66010 > bt878(0): irq FBUS risc_pc=1fc66158 > bt878(0): IRQ lockup, cleared int mask I had exact same problem for a very long time with my nxt6000 nebula. I finally some weeks ago tracked it down to the nic I was using (rtl8139). These errors would appear when data was moving over the network. It seemed completely random at first but became apparent when I started using nfs for vdr recording storage; fast forwarding would always trigger it instantly. The dvb card apparently also completely stopped transferring data while these errors happened so I'd have unexplained gaps in my recordings. I still don't understand why it dislikes the nic as the other dvb-t card I have (also bt878 based) doesn't seem to bork like the nebula does. For now I'm using the onboard nic, via rhineII. Not really the perfect trade as the driver is utter crap. Keeps resetting itself all the time so bad that the average maximum bandwidth comes out to about 4MB/s, but at least the nebula doesn't keep losing irqs anymore and my recordings don't have gaps in them. Tried with two different motherboards, the nebula just doesn't seem to like to play well with others. I tried all kinds of latency tricks on the nic and both dvb cards. Nothing less than throwing away the nic "cured" it.
