[mythtv-users] X Freezes blank on 'watch tv'

[Jonathan Sass]

Kevin et all.,

Thank you for your posts. I ran into the same problem. You saved me 
many hours of headscratching.

Jonathan

On Sunday, October 10, 2004, at 01:47 AM, Pete Cable wrote:

> Most likely it was locking up because xorg was trying to use NVidia's
> GLX stuff with the nv driver....
>
>
> On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 10:42:16 -0400, Kevin Clayton
> <kevin.clayton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wohooo !  I don't want to jinx myself but I think I have
>> achieved success !
>>
>> On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:47:08 -0400, Doug Larrick <doug AT ties.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> Kevin Clayton wrote:
>>>> 2004-10-08 16:46:09 Using deinterlace method linearblend
>>>> 2004-10-08 16:46:10 nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work,
>>>> unimplemented in this driver?
>>>> 2004-10-08 16:46:10 DRMVideoSync: Could not open device
>>>> /dev/dri/card0, Permission denied
>>>> 2004-10-08 16:46:10 RTCVideoSync: Could not set RTC frequency,
>>>> Permission denied.
>>>> 2004-10-08 16:46:10 Using audio as timebase
>>>> 2004-10-08 16:46:10 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
>>>
>>> You'll get a little bit of CPU time back if you make sure /dev/rtc is
>>> readable & writeable by your Myth user, and arrange to 'echo 1024 >
>>> /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq' at boot time.
>>
>> I have not adressed this but will look into it. I want to enjoy my 
>> system
>> working at least as it is now before I mess with it and potentially do
>> damage :)
>>
>>
>>> I agree, though... something is screwy if your X server is freezing.
>>> Have you tried playing with the NvAGP option (selects whether to use
>>> your kernel's agp driver or nVidia's)?
>>
>> I started investigating Doug's above suggestion.
>> In doing so, I found that somehow my xorg.conf  was not
>> using the Driver that I thought it was ...
>>
>> I changed it from "Driver" "nv" to "Driver" to "nvidia"
>>
>> After rebooting --- I can now watch LiveTV, I can watch recorded
>> programs.
>>
>> So -- in my case,  my X freeze, cpu usage issues seemed to be a 
>> direct result
>> of not using the correct video drivers ....
>>
>> I'm going to review Jarod's HOWTO guide again to see what else I find
>> that may not be correctly setup.
>>
>> Thanks to the ivtv and the mythtv developers for a great system,
>> thanks to Jarod for the HOWTO guide, and thanks to the users on this
>> list who chipped in and gave me advice and suggestions.
>>
>>
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