[mythtv-users] Mythtv hard freezes my box!

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 02 August 2005 01:23 am, roger wrote:
> 1. # mythtv-setup
> 2. Do you want to erase (some files)?
> 3. Hard freeze after a minute of two.
>
> I'm using a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop with an Nvidia Geforce card.
>
> I've also tried the optional acpi=no noapic options on boot but have not
> verified the commands were accepted on boot (ie. dmesg)
>
> (My gut tells me this has to be a known issue!)

Turn off renderaccel in your x config, sounds like the standard nvidia x 
driver bug.  If you followed the normal gentoo mythtv howto, you turned this 
on, and that's _not_ what you want to do.

Isaac