[mythtv-users] Computer freezes trying to watch recordings

[David Meixner]

On 17/08/07, David Meixner <dpmeixner at gmail.com
<http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users> > wrote:
> I recently installed a frontend in Ubuntu on my laptop and everything was
> working fine.  This week, I moved to a new apartment, and now when I try
to
> watch recordings on my frontend, I hear audio for about half a second, see
a
> blue screen, and then my computer completely freezes.  I have another
> combined backend/frontend that works fine.  Any ideas as to what could be
> causing this?
 
>What video card and video driver version are you using?
>-- 
>Nick
 
Sorry, I suppose I should have looked at the frontend log to see what was
happening.  After doing that, I saw "NVP: Timed out waiting for free video
buffers".  Turns out, all I had to do was comment out the glx driver in my
xorg.conf file, as explained here
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting:NVP:_Timed_out_waiting_
for_free_video_buffers
 
I still don't know why it worked fine a week ago.  Possibly a system update
or installing VLC?  Oh well, as long as it's working now.
 
David
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