[mythtv-users] mythfrontend freeze when accessing Watch Recordings

Phill Edwards philledwards at gmail.com
Tue May 31 07:08:21 UTC 2005


> I am currently running .18.1 on FC3.
> 
> I have been using MythTV quite successfully for a couple of months
> now.  I am not the strongest Linux swimmer, but was pretty successful
> with Jarod's HOWTO.  I decided to go a little crazy and install
> mythstreamtv.  This requires (as I understand it) that you configure
> and install vlc and ffmpeg.
> 
> I successfully installed these, but along the way, something bad
> happened:
> 
> When I go to the Watch Recording screens, the boxes which contain the
> information are drawn, but then everything freezes and the machine no
> longer accepts input.  mythbackend, however continues to run, and I
> can ssh into the machine, but mythfrontend locks anything else up.  I
> apologize for not having more concise information about installing
> vlc and ffmpeg.  And really, that may not have anything to do with my
> problem.
> 
> I hope someone can help, lest I wipe it all and start again!

No need to start again! I had this exact problem. I think it's an
nvidia driver bug. I bet if you set RenderAccel = false in your
xorg.conf then the problem will be fixed. Or go back to a version
prior to 7174.

Regards,
Phill


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