[mythtv-users] Apple TV almost working. Only a slight issue remains

[Scott D. Davilla]

>Scott D. Davilla wrote:
>>>  On 10/17/2008 11:40 AM, Michael Brancato wrote:
>>>>   Mythfrontend
>>>>   seems to use over 160MB in memory itself with HD content.  I'm afraid
>>>>   the lack is ram is what is preventing me from enabling deinterlacing.
>>>  Note that choice of theme makes a /very/ big difference in the amount of
>>>  memory used by mythfrontend.  IIRC, Iulius is the "cheapest" theme.
>>
>>  And don't forget about the xorg.conf trick to get the nvidia driver
>>  to not use system ram. This will free up another 64MB for system
>>  usage. Search the atv-bootloader discussion group and I think there's
>>  a mention in the blog.
>
>I'm using the Mythcenter theme which seems really fast.
>
>I have both settings that I've read are needed to reduce the shared
>memory to 64MB...
>
>In my xorg.conf Device section:
>      Option         "RegistryDwords" "RMDisableRenderToSystem=1"
>
>And for the nvidia module, I pass the following options:
>options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords="PerfLevelSrc=0x2222" NVreg_Mobile=0
>
>However, I still get:
>(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce Go 7300 (G72) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
>(--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 131072 kBytes
>(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.72.22.68.00
>
>The underclocking script does seem to be working with a confirmation by
>nvidia-settings.
>
>Any clue why this doesn't work for me?  I'm running driver 177.

try

Option         "RegistryDwords" "RMDisableRenderToSysmem=1"