mistergoodbytes
2007-10-01, 06:05 PM CDT
I have a TV tuner which is working fine, but when leaving the TV function up long enough to watch a full length movie the video eventually locks up the entire system requiring a complete reboot of the 'puter. By eventually, I mean well into the movie, say 90 minutes to 2 hours.
Sound and vision come in through the tuner card. When the lock up happens, audio continues to come in. The video stays frozen on the last image which came from the TV (meaning that the screen does not go blank). This happens whether the TV window is full screen or windowed. Since this freezes the system entirely, even though I have an icon set up to invoke XKILL, it's not usable (no mouse pointer, no keyboard response). I did have energy savings/monitor suspend turned on, but this happens even after turning monitor power controls completely off (I used KDE's configurator to turn off this display property). The only other behavior I have observed in this regard is the tendency of the TV image (but NOT audio) to get a tiny bit slow and jumpy in the few minutes before the lock up happens.
I am running Fedora 7 with an Intel 810 chipset with 384M of RAM, the machine started life an HP Pavilion and has evolved since then.
My suspicion is that this has nothing to do with the tuner card and is related to video or other memory allocation/cache. Any ideas?
Sound and vision come in through the tuner card. When the lock up happens, audio continues to come in. The video stays frozen on the last image which came from the TV (meaning that the screen does not go blank). This happens whether the TV window is full screen or windowed. Since this freezes the system entirely, even though I have an icon set up to invoke XKILL, it's not usable (no mouse pointer, no keyboard response). I did have energy savings/monitor suspend turned on, but this happens even after turning monitor power controls completely off (I used KDE's configurator to turn off this display property). The only other behavior I have observed in this regard is the tendency of the TV image (but NOT audio) to get a tiny bit slow and jumpy in the few minutes before the lock up happens.
I am running Fedora 7 with an Intel 810 chipset with 384M of RAM, the machine started life an HP Pavilion and has evolved since then.
My suspicion is that this has nothing to do with the tuner card and is related to video or other memory allocation/cache. Any ideas?