[mythtv-users] CPU performance governor vs disabling AMD Cool n Quiet

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 October 2010 08:44, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When AMD Coon n'Quiet is enabled, the default governor set the bus
>> speed too low to properly feed the nvidia card for VDPAU usage. As
>> such, VDPAU is unusable. Set the minimum frequency to be around
>> 1.8GHz.
>>
>
> Forgot to add that it wouldn't be any different with a GT220

Interestingly enough though, my main frontend box is an athon 64 x2
(~2.7GHz, iirc) with a GT220. It runs with the ondemand cpufreq
governor enabled, with both cores pretty much always throttled back to
1GHz, and it never has a single issue with vdpau playback...

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com