[mythtv-users] Slow menus - X claims 99% CPU - help!
CHRIS KOTTING
ckotting at wideopenwest.com
Mon Oct 2 12:29:42 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:04:13 +1000, Iain Waugh wrote
> Hi all,
>
> I've got an odd one here - I've got OpenGL menus working beautifully
> (fading in and out smoothly), but the standard ones (editing program
> schedules, selecting which recording to view, etc.) take about 1-2
> seconds to navigate each one and the 'X' process claims 99% CPU.
>
> It's not the theme - they all do it.
>
> I don't think it's the window manager - twm, evilwm and fluxbox do it.
>
> I've got nVidia compiled in and the binary drivers loaded and
> running
> (glxgears > 2000fps). Gentoo linux, mythtv 0.20_p11281, xorg 7.0.
>
> I've had this problem with mythtv 0.19, too - gave up after 2 weeks.
> I've got 0.16 running on an old system just fine.
>
> Any ideas? Any pointers to help further debugging?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Iain
>
Iain -
I had some success with commenting out the "RenderAccel" line in xorg.conf.
The newer nVidia drivers don't seem to need it. Also, check out Jarrod
Wilson's instructions for a Fedora Core install, as they include some tweaks
for mysql that help as well.
Chris K.
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