[mythtv-users] System hangs when scrolling thru a menu

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Sorry to reply to my own thread but I seem to have another minor
problem. Intermittantly, when working in the priority section, when I
click enter/space/ok on a show to pull up the recording options (ie to
delete the schedule), the mythfrontend just disappears. The backend is
fine.

I would post logs but there is no frontend log (correct?) and there is
nothing unual in the backend log.

Anyone have any ideas? 

Also, Axel mentioned we have 5 versions of the nvidia drivers on atrpms.
Which 5 are there so I can check the release notes on each? Is there a
way I can tell?

Thanks again,
Eric


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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of nowhere at cox.net
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:09 AM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] System hangs when scrolling thru a menu

I assembled my new mythbox and installed myth last night and all was
working very well (both TVcards, recording, liveTV, weather etc...).
Many thanks to Jarod for his exceptional guide! I do have one rather
severe problem however.  

When scrolling down in the "Fix Scheduling Conflict" menu with a couple
dozen shows queued (no actual conflicts btw), my frontend will hang
completely, requiring a hard reset to continue. It always occurs once
the last item in the menu appears at the bottom slot of the displayed
items.  Occasionally it will hang up if I simply scroll up and down in
the middle of the list. The hang is simply that the PC will no longer
take any input. I cannot esc out with remote or keyboard and
ctrl-alt-del will not give me the logout option. The screen remains with
the last state myth was in before the hang. It does not go black or
distort in anyway.

Hardware:
Athlon XP2000+
Corsair 512MB
Seagate 7200 80GB HD
MSI K7N2GM-L motherboard
	(integrated GF4 with 8mb shared RAM, nForce2 lan and audio)
2x PVR-250


software:
Jarod's recommended nvidia nForce2 and gForce drivers
ATrpms kernel 2174 (the one recommended by Axel on this list a couple
days ago)
myth 0.14
lirc
extra audio buffing enabled
jitter reduction enabled
de-interlace disabled (atm)
using VGA out to a SONY monitor
GF4 TV-out enabled but not tested yet

I followed Jarod's guide with only one hitch which was the thing he
suggested must be done for the install to go off without a hitch. I
forgot to comment out the KDE-redhat lines so mythtv-suite did not
install and I went on and installed the PVR drivers and realized the
mistake when mplayer was not found. I then installed mythtv correctly
and continued. Don't know if the order is important.

The only other quirk is when upgraded the kernel, I had to rpm -e
{nforce drivers} in order to install the rebuilt ones and from then on
out I would get a warning on certain apt-get processes complaining about
something powerk7.so (don't remember the exact warning and I'm at work
right now, shhhh). 

Other than this hang, the system is operating flawlessly.

>From the nature of the problem it seems to act like an array indexing
problem but since the system hangs I get no error message. I'm not sure
where to check for this error in a log either.

Please give me a hint where to start tracking this problem down.

Thanks much for the support!

Eric

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