Joseph,<br>
KDE isn't installed, neither is aRts. Never were, it's a pretty vanilla LFS system. <br>
ok, so running top over ssh. <br>
disabled tv out, monitor plugged in. Started the backend, then the
frontend. cpu @ 0.0. selected watch live tv. cpu at 11% mem @ 14.6%
(+/- .4%)<br>
and enabling tv out:<br>
starts up at 0.0. Selecting watch live tv jumps to 11.0% cpu 14.4% mem. (+/- .4%) <br>
<br>
Not what I'd call a drastic difference.<br>
<br>
I'm still at a total loss, gonna check the nvidia forums to see if I
can get the 6629 driver working, maybe it'll help, but if not I'll have
eliminated one more thing to try.<br>
<br>
Any other suggestions?<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
John<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joseph A. Caputo</b> <<a href="mailto:jcaputo1@comcast.net">jcaputo1@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 2:19, John Yonn wrote:<br>> Total strangeness. Apparently the problem is with the nvidia driver<br>> I'm<br>> using. or so it seems. I just turned off the tv out and plugged in a<br>
> regular<br>> monitor for the first time since I finished building XFree86.<br>> Surprisingly<br>> theres a huge difference. I'm not quite sure why. I'm using an<br>> Albatron<br>> FX5200LP. Seemed like a cheap nvidia 5200 with a tv-out at the time.
<br>> and I'm<br>> using the NVIDIA 1.0.8174 drivers that nvidia provides. Anyone know if<br>> theres a bug in that version, or have any suggestions of a known-good<br>> version?<br><br>Well, I think this avenue might be a red herring. However... I suppose
<br>it's possible that Xv is not working on your TV-out. If that's so,<br>then you'd be doing video scaling in software, which would take more<br>processing power, and possible cause the video to lag the audio. You<br>can check whether Xv is working by running "xvinfo". Also, run 'top'
<br>while doing Myth playback in both TV-out and VGA modes, and see if<br>there's a significant difference in mythfrontend.<br><br>The other suggestion I have (totally unrelated to your video card) is<br>that if you're using KDE with the aRts sound system, check your "Sound
<br>System" settings under "Skip Prevention" and decrease the buffer size,<br>or better yet, turn off aRts completely and just use ALSA output.<br><br>HTH,<br>JAC<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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