[mythtv-users] freezes, Fedora, Myth(TV)ology, NVidia, glx

[White Joe]

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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of 
> the4hands at comcast.net
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 2:12 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] freezes, Fedora, Myth(TV)ology, 
> NVidia, glx
> 
> > > I'm trying to build my first MythTV system. I'm using FC4 
> on a system
> > > with an AMD Sempron 3000+ socket 739, an ASUS A8N 
> motherboard and a
> > > Hauppauge 250 capture card. I'm following Jerod Wilson's 
> instuctions
> > > from his Fedora Myth(ology) page. I've done all of the checks 
> > > along the
> > > way. I can watch TV with ivtv and mplayer. I can record with 
> > > ivtvctl and
> > > 'cat /dev/video0'. Everything in Myth seems to go fine until 
> > > I click on
> > > "Watch TV" in the Myth frontend. At that point, my screen 
> > > goes blank and
> > > I get no response from the mouse and keyboard. I can ssh into 
> 
> > Yeah.  Been there.  Check out your xorg.conf.  You probably have glx
> > loaded in the modules section, and nvidia as the driver in 
> the device
> > section.  If your system is like mine, then they are grumping at one
> > another.  Changing "nvidia" back to "nv" [contrary to Jarod's
> > instructions] will let you use your MythBox.  No doubt this 
> is a mortal
> > sin, but I haven't been able to find the True Cause yet.  
> Whats weird is
> > that I didn't have this problem in 0.17, 0.18 or 0.18.1.
> 
> I've been having similiar problems as well creating MythDora. 
> I'm using the
> 7676 Nvidia driver version and I'm getting the same glx 
> errors. There are
> two workarounds that I've found that work. The first is to 
> comment out glx
> in xorg.conf as someone had already mentioned and the second 
> fix I found that
> works was to remove the nvidia-graphics7676-1.0_7676 rpm then 
> re-install
> it. After that all seems to work fine. I realize not all will 
> be using an rpm based
> install but thought I would throw it out anyway. I still 
> can't figure out why it's
> not installing correctly.
> 
> Dennis
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You are saying use rpm, as opposed to yum?  I will try it.