[mythtv-users] AMD64, Nvidia 6200, MythTV

[jack snodgrass]

On 10/19/06, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:
> I finally decided to tackle the project of building a MythTV box at
> home.  I loaded up FC5 x64 on an AMD Sempron64 3000+ system with a
> PVR-150, Nvidia 6200 (with svideo) connected to a simple analog TV and a
> DirecTv satellite receiver.
>
> All went well.  I manged to get the entire system up and running (after
> debugging a bad 512MB memory module.. I've RMA'ed that!), updated
> everything, got MythTV installed, and attacked the setup.  I had a
> couple of odd hangs of the system during the setup process, and, after
> restarts, I was able to pick up where I left off.
>
> I brought up the frontend and managed, after a couple of similar hangs,
> to get everything there configured and actually had video (no audio
> because I had not picked up the right cable at the time).  Nice.  So, I
> brought it all down and attacked the Lirc stuff.
>
> From there on out, the MythTV frontend continually locked up.  At first,
> I thought the problem might have been with Lirc, but even after ripping
> those changes out, the problem persisted.  I also don't know why I did
> not think of this earlier, but I decided to see if the system was truly
> locked up, and I SSH'ed in from another host (successfully).  I
> discovered similar messages to the following in /var/log/messages
> Aug 27 04:48:02 myth1 NVRM: Xid: 25, L1 -> L0
> Aug 27 04:48:02 myth1 NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02003900 00000039 00000328
> 00000000 00000800
>
> And I discovered that X was pretty much hung at 99% system utilization.
> Killing X and swapping init levels to 3, then back to 5, got me back in.
>
> I can currently run "mplayer /dev/video0" and I can successfully watch
> the live feed.
>
> So.. This seems to be Nvidia driver related.  I googled it a bit, and
> got some cryptic results back (nothing specific to MythTV, but this one
> was close:
> http://blog.cryos.net/archives/42-System-Freezes-Caused-by-the-Proprietary-Nvidia-Driver.html),
> but I was wondering if anyone else had bumped in to this problem?  There
> was some mention about disabling opengl, changing the screen resolution,
> sacrificing a chicken on the fifth day when the moon is in alignment
> with Saturn, and using the "nv" driver.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> -Rich
>
I've got FC5, AMD 64, Nvidia 6200 ( fanless ) and my stuff works. Are
you running
the livna version of the nvidia drivers?

jack