[mythtv-users] X11 freeze w/ FC3 and nvidia 6629

[William Lott]

Hello All.

I upgraded my FC1 box to FC3 over the weekend and now X11 hangs 5-10 
minutes into watching recorded shows.  I can ssh into the box and kill 
the X11 server (99% cpu, needs a kill -9 to actually die), but that 
makes for a rather discontinuous viewing experience.

Hardware:
  ASUS A7V8X-MX SE mobo
    VIA KM400 chipset
  AMD Athlon XP 2k+
  nVidia GeForce4 MX 440
  512M ram
  2x Hauppauge PVR-250s
  2x Samsung 160GB drives

Software:
  FC3 w/ latest atRPMs:
   kernel ver 2.6.10-1.766_FC3
   ivtv ver 0.2.0-65_rc3g.rhfc3.at
   nvidia-graphics6629
   X.org ver 6.8.1
   MythTV CVS from 1/1/05

When X hangs I get a single line cryptic message in /var/log/message 
from the nvidia driver.  Some examples:

NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 007c 7f807e7f 0000fbb4 7f807e7f 7f7f7f7f
NVRM: Xid: 1, Channel 00000000 Method 00000000 Data 80808080
NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 06cc 7f7f8080 0000fbb4 02d07f7f 7f7f8080
NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 007c 8080807f 0000fbb4 8080807f 80808080
NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 007c 7f80807e 000065d4 02d08080 80808080
NVRM: Xid: 1, Channel 00000000 Method 00000000 Data 817d7e81

I've tried the other nvidia driver versions available at atrpms 
(specifically, 6106 and 6111), but I can't get them to load into the kernel:

Mar  1 21:13:43 mythtv kernel: nvidia: Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE
Mar  1 21:13:43 mythtv kernel: nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_find_class

 From the log files, it looks like I'm using agpgart.  I haven't tried 
to force it to use nvidia's agp driver because the README doesn't list 
my chipset.

Does anyone have any ideas what I might try to fix this?  With this 
upgrade, recording seems stable for the first time since November.  But 
that doesn't do me any good if I can't watch!

-William