[mythtv-users] Ratpoison on dedicated frontend

[William Munson]

Nowhere wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info guys. I will play around with it. In the meantime, 
> I simply started the frontend from command line while running 
> ratpoison wm, and it turns out I still get the pauses. As it turns out 
> the pauses don't seem to be some buffering but more like dropped 
> frames. The amount dropped is always less than a second and happens at 
> random intervals.
>
> Any ideas what might be the source since running ratpoison hasn't 
> seemed to improve it?
>
>
Sounds like a video card problem. Check your video card agp slot 
settings. You may have the accel settings either off or set too high. 
For my system agp setting of 4x seems to work best for me. For me this 
is a bios setting, not a linux setting.