[mythtv] Re: waiting for free video buffers timed out
Johan
johanderycke at skynet.be
Sat Oct 2 11:33:32 EDT 2004
fyi: I also had the nvidia kernel module on my failing setup...
Johan
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 16:29, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> I appreciate the suggestions, and I will probably uninstall my
> tarball+patch+hack '100zz' and try out your 'testing' RPM instead (to make
> it easier later). I upgraded to the latest rpms, and xorg went from
> xorg-x11-6.7.0-5
> to
> xorg-x11-6.7.0-9
>
> Unfortunately, that didn't fix the problem. The good news is that
> I think I figured out what it was, and why more people don't have it.
> Since I've been trying a number of different vid cards, drivers, etc,
> there was some vestigial cruft in the xorg.conf and modprobe.conf. For
> some reason, either X or mythtv was still loading the nvidia kernel module
> and breaking the 'ati' driver card for video play. Getting rid of
>
> ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia" (xorg.conf)
> and
> # nvidia kernel module
> alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-6111 (modprobe.conf)
>
> made it go.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions, and hopefully the 100zz rpm will go
> nicely.
>
> -Cory
>
> *************************************************************************
> * Cory Papenfuss *
> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
> *************************************************************************
>
>
> On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Axel Thimm wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:17:19PM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> >> *sigh*... I feel a re-install in my future. Oh well, with 100zz
> >> from Axel on the horizon at least the install should be easier.
> >
> > 100zz has already landed.
> > (in "testing", and testing is appreciated, but is not to be considered
> > "stable" yet :)
> >
> > I wouldn't reinstall FC2, just upgrade to the currently available rpms.
> >
> > But I don't think this error has something to do with the capture card
> > drivers, as you write that it occurs during playback.
> >
> > Try uninstalling all capture card drivers and see if the error is
> > still there. Next use X drivers from xorg only and not from ATI, to
> > check whether the error is in the video driver. Finally if the error
> > is still there it would look like it has been isolated to mythtv.
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >> -Cory
> >>
> >> *************************************************************************
> >> * Cory Papenfuss *
> >> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
> >> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
> >> *************************************************************************
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Johan wrote:
> >>
> >>> I reinstalled FC2 using Jarods guide. Everything is working fine now.
> >>> I did not install at-bleeding this time. Maybe that made the
> >>> difference...
> >>>
> >>> Johan
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 17:08, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> >>>> Any results from this experiment? The only weirdness I can think
> >>>> of with my box is that it's a dual PIII (VIA VP6) with an older ATI card.
> >>>>
> >>>> Still have no resolution with my machine.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks!
> >>>> -Cory
> >>>>
> >>>> *************************************************************************
> >>>> * Cory Papenfuss *
> >>>> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
> >>>> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
> >>>> *************************************************************************
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Johan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:26, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> >>>>>> Hey all... just wondering if there's an idea for a resolution on
> >>>>>> this.
> >>>>>> I saw it in the archives from a few days ago, and it just started
> >>>>>> happening to
> >>>>>> me. It appears to do this when using r128 or ati (mach64) cards, but
> >>>>>> not with
> >>>>>> nvidia on a tnt2. When trying to play a video through mythtv, it just
> >>>>>> continously spits out:
> >>>>>> waiting for free video buffers timed out
> >>>>>> waiting for free video buffers timed out
> >>>>>> waiting for free video buffers timed out
> >>>>>> waiting for free video buffers timed out
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -Cory
> >>>>>
> >>>>> hey,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I reported the problem here
> >>>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/85563
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have sis 650 for video output(onboard).
> >>>>> Could not wait for a solution and installed FC2 again.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Now I am upgrading package by package to see if it comes back...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Johan
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
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