[mythtv-users] nvidia 177.82 pegs mythfrontend when xscreensaver activates during paused program?

[Tom Dexter]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> I use an opengl screen saver in xscreensaver on my myth frontend.
> Today I noticed that, if xsceensaver activates while a program in myth
> is paused, the screensaver never shows (I just get a black screen) and
> the mythfrontend process pegs the CPU.  When it happens, I can't even
> kill X on the frontend with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, but have to kill
> mythfrontend remotely.  It seems to happen very consistently under
> those circumstances.  This only happens if a show is paused, and not
> if myth is, for example, at a menu.
>
> I recently upgraded a number of things on my frontend (running
> Gentoo).  I traced it to the 177.82 nvidia driver.  I had upgraded
> from 173.14.09.
>
> I also upgraded the kernel to 2.6.27, and the original driver version
> 173.14.09 wouldn't compile against it...however 173.14.15 would, and
> that corrected the problem.
>
> Anyone else run into this?  Thanks.
>
> Tom
>

I forgot to mention, this is with a GeForce 7100GS.

Tom