[mythtv-users] Re: Scrolling in MythMusic playlist selection screen

Paul Andreassen paulx at andreassen.com.au
Mon Nov 15 04:18:37 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 13:12, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> I'm beginning to become suspicious of the Nvidia binary drivers...
> I periodically get the "X consumes 90% of CPU" problem; it's seemingly
> random but... on my other system (which used to be my Myth box until
> recently), X hangs consistently when starting KDE.  If I switch to the
> "nv" driver, I have no problems (and also no OpenGL, so not really much
> use for some things...)
> 
> If it is the driver, there's not much we can do, short of complaining
> to Nvidia. Closed source drivers suck.

Hi Joseph,

On my old machine (P3 733MHz) Nvidia binary drivers would lockup if I
turned on 'Fast Writes'.  Check your modules.conf for "options nvidia
NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1" and remove.

Paul



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