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Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?



Hi...
> >
> > Problems occur with either GPL  and non-GPL nvidia graphic driver.
> >
> > The only special device I have it's a BT878 card.
> > 0000:05:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878
> > Video Capture (rev 11)
> > 0000:05:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio
> > Capture (rev 11)
>
> Overloaded or crappy power supply?  Low quality ram?
how can I know if the power supply is doing it bad ?

RAM is passing perfectly the memtest86+ ( real mode run in grub )
>
> > OOPS examples:
> > -------------------------
> > Unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000004ce68944 RIP:
> > <ffffffff8016cc8a>{vfs_read+300}
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> > Process artsd (pid: 7873, threadinfo ffff810127b98000, task
> > ffff81013f6c20c0)
>
> Well artsd is related to kde/sound so maybe there is a problem there.
> What happens if you don't run kde or disable sound?
the process is random... 
# cat messages  | grep Process | grep pid | awk '{ print $7 }' | sort -u | 
wc -l
12

I have detected that running tvtime ( or xawtv ) usually make it hang often.
I don't know if it's because the bt878 v4l driver. As there are several tasks 
related ( memory copying from bt878 to tvtime and it to Xfree for 
example... ). I'm not using "overlay" mode, just "grabdisplay".

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