[mythtv-users] MythTV 29.1 nVidia video jump hesitation with 5.15 kernel

[Tom Dexter]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 9:38 AM Mike Perkins
<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 25/01/2022 14:11, Tom Dexter wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 4:25 AM Stephen Worthington
> > <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks everyone for the replies!
> >
> > Yea, I suspect that this is primarily related to that legacy nVidia
> > driver as well as the fact that this is 32-bit, and I suspect this
> > won't get resolved. I'm fairly sure that Gentoo will retain 32 bit
> > support for a very long time, though it won't get tested as much as
> > others of course. These video hesitations aren't really all that bad
> > and again, it's only when jumping forward/back. If I want to avoid
> > them I'll just have to stick to the 5.10 kernel. Unfortunately
> > replacing the video card in that machine isn't an option because the
> > PCI Express slots there are 1.0 and I was lucky to even find GT 430
> > cards that would even work.
> >
> > The primary reason I've held onto that old frontend as long as I have
> > is that I have lots of duplicate hardware I got on the cheap, so if I
> > have any issues, I can swap out a hard drive and be watching TV again
> > in like 1/2 hour. Aside from this issue, it actually works flawlessly
> > for us too. That's pretty convenient and not easy nor cheap to
> > replace.
> >
> I'd be interested to learn what hardware you have that is only 32-bit capable. I'm still running
> 10-year old Atoms which can handle 64-bit very successfully - not my mythtv system, mind you! And
> they are running Debian Bullseye.
>
> --
>
> Mike Perkins
>
Oh yea, this is WAY older than that. It's the first frontend I built
in 2007 and is a small form factor Dell 4700C.

Tom