[mythtv] OpenGL vsync broken on Intel i945

Riz mythtv at woox.net
Fri Nov 23 18:02:23 UTC 2007


IIRC /dev/rtc was renamed to /dev/rtc0. Maybe symlinking it to
/dev/rtc may enable RTC?

Did forcing the use of the overlay not work?

On Nov 23, 2007 5:39 PM, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:14:50 -0500, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > It should according to 2.6.22.9 Documentation/rtc.txt...
>
> It is documented in the section "Old PC/AT-Compatible driver:
> /dev/rtc". This is CONFIG_RTC. However, I use CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS, and
> only one of them can be used. The new driver has a sysfs interface, but
> something like max-user-freq seems to be missing.
>
> CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS has the advantage that the wakeup time can be
> written in seconds since epoch, as it is proviced my MythTV. No messing
> around with date/time conversions between local time and UTC time are
> needed.
>
> > Maybe your distro changed this somehow? The Linux documentation
>
> This is a vanilla kernel (2.6.23.1).
>
> > could be wrong of course. But it appears to still work with the
> > latest Ubuntu kernel.
>
> It just depends on the RTC driver that is loaded at runtime (rtc.ko or
> rtc-cmos.ko, if the latter is provided by the distro).
>
> >
> > I googled fedora core 8, since I've noticed some Fedora users
> > complaining. It looks like /proc/sys/dev/hpet/max-user-freq
> > might work there instead.
>
> I already set this, but it doesn't seem to be sufficient for
> mythfrontend. It still falls back to USleep.
>
> > But this is quickly becoming a discussion for mythtv-users as
> > MythTV can't actually set this, it must be set by the distro,
> > or the distro packagers of MythTV.
>
> When /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq is mentioned somewhere in the
> MythTV documentation, then it should be mentioned that this doesn't
> work with the new RTC driver anymore.
>
> Regards,
> Tino
>
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