[mythtv-users] Which nVidia card?

[Robert M. Riches Jr.]

On 3/8/12 8:41, John <nospam at netrom.com> wrote:
> I added an Asus gt430 to my working BE/FE system after following this
> discussion for a bit and it's a real nightmare. Should have just
> stayed with the Intel Sandy bridge video. Still can't get compiz to
> work properly in 3d accelerated mode because it keeps segfaulting but
> my biggest issue is Mythfrontend menus take 5-10 seconds to move a
> single line.
>
> Interesting enough if I run FE in a window with geometry of 660x360
> the menus "only" lag a second or two per line. I also tried forcing
> the painter to use qt but no difference.
>
> Any ideas what I may have set/done wrong?
>
> TIA
>
> Went back to the Intel Video and things are working perfectly again. I
> could see nothing in the logs to explain the menu slow downs. Welcome
> any feedback or things to check.

I can't say what was wrong with your system, but I have
an Asus GT430 working pretty well.  I'm using Mageia 1
with the Nouveau driver and plain-old X (no Gnome, KDE,
or compviz).  The driver doesn't do acceleration, so
the software does use a lot of CPU (mythfrontend and X
combined use 1.0-1.15 threads of a W3680).  There is
some tearing of the image, but it drives a 1920x1200
monitor with no detectable lag or slowness.

HTH

Robert