[mythtv-users] NVIDIA woes? X starts spinning at 95-99% cpu all of a sudden

Jerry Rubinow jerrymr at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 22:43:06 UTC 2006


On 6/20/06, Jeff <jeff3140 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/19/06, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/19/06, Jeff <jeff3140 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > This was on a box which was up for 24 hours, had recorded some shows,
> > > played back some shows. It was basically working fine. The box was
> > > recently upgraded so it doesn't have more of a history (other than
> > > working fine before the upgrade).
> > >
> > > Today i was navigating through the menues on the frontend and it hung.
> > > Looking from another session showed X as the top cpu process with 99%
> > > or so.
> >
> > Run nvidia-settings and make sure all the VBlank checkboxes related to
> > textures are unchecked.  Note that these settings have to be loaded
> > every time X is started.
> >
>
> Unfortunatly this did not help. I unchecked the one VBlank box
> which was checked (Sync to Vblank in Video Texture Adaptor) but I
> still got a freeze where X went to 99% cpu. Interestingly (or not) the
> freeze only happens when I select the "Change Group View" menu.

Just noticed you said you weren't even watching video - my bad.
Sorry, I got nothing.

-Jerry


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