[mythtv-users] Nvidia GeForce and Mythtv

[Robert Krig]

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I have also experienced freezes with a Geforce 6600 AGP and a ASUS
A7N8X Nforce Motherboard.
I found out that this was due to some devices sharing the same IRQ on
the pci bus.
I changed some settings in the BIOS. Now there are still some devices
sharing a IRQ, but it seems like those devices which were causing the
problem are now on separate IRQ channels so no freezing anymore.

By the way, my system would freeze whenever I had anything that played
sound for 15-30 Minutes.
I never seemed to have a problem with it before until I recently
aquired a Dolby Digital Decoder and therefore configured my system to
play all sound via Digital SPDIF Passthrough.

Something you might wanna try:

Try watching a movie or dvd with xine or mplayer, see if freezes are
caused by any other programs other than mythtv.

If indeed it is only Mythtv which freezes when you watch TV, try
selecting a different Mpeg decoder in the Playback settings.
If you are using XVMC, try turning it off, or vice versa. Mythtv has
support for different methods to play Mpeg streams. Try different ones
and see what results you get, could be that your Nvidia card simply
doesnt play nice with certain options.

Good Luck.



nik gibson schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having spontaneous system freezes since installing an Nvidia
> GeForce 6200 into my mythtv box.  From the research I've done I
> think it could be a couple of things:
>
> I'm using the latest driver and some threads indicate older drivers
> may be necessary for some cards.
> Agpart is compiled into my kernel and nvidia recommends not enabling
> agpart.
>
> Does anyone know of a driver version that is known to work with the
> Geforce 6200 card?
> Do you have to compile a custom kernel without agpart enabled or is
> there another way to ensure agpart doesn't load?
>
> I've tested the driver with AGP disabled in my xorg.conf and I still
> get the hard system freeze.  I'm going to post this on the nvidia
> site as well but there are a ton of knowledgeable people on this
> list and I was hoping maybe someone has a 6200 and knows what's
> needed.  One day maybe I'll have HD working.
>
> Thanks
>
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