[mythtv-users] Nvidia 7174 Lockup in MythTV

[Howard Cokl]

--- Big Wave Dave <bigwavedave at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been running Nvidia 6629 for awhile, with no
> problems... except
> for not having XVMC working.
> 
> I decided to follow the crowd and upgrade to 7174. 
> The upgrade went
> fine... and I could even launch mythfrontend. 
> However, when I went
> into the TV Settings --> Playback... I can only get
> about 3 pages in
> and it freezes up.  X goes to 100% and becomes
> unresponsive!?  (I was
> trying to get to the screen to enable XVMC).  At
> first I had used the
> ATRpms... and then even tried the drivers from
> Nvidia (after
> uninstalling the ATRpms).
> 
> Looking at the logs for X, shows:
> NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000b980,
> 0x0000f2e0, 1) 
> 
> I am using AGPGART and have RenderAccel set to 1...
> output is to SVIDEO.
> 
> Any suggestions on this one?  
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave

Turn off renderaccel, I had the same problem and I
believe it is a known issue, saw someting about X
doing that on nvidia's forums

Howard