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<div class=Section1><pre>On 17/08/07, David Meixner <<a
href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">dpmeixner at gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>><i> I recently installed a frontend in Ubuntu on my laptop and everything was<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>><i> working fine. This week, I moved to a new apartment, and now when I try to<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>><i> watch recordings on my frontend, I hear audio for about half a second, see a<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>><i> blue screen, and then my computer completely freezes. I have another<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>><i> combined backend/frontend that works fine. Any ideas as to what could be<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre>><i> causing this?<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>>What video card and video driver version are you using?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>Nick<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Sorry, I suppose I should have looked at the frontend log to see what was happening. After doing that, I saw “NVP: Timed out waiting for free video buffers”. Turns out, all I had to do was comment out the glx driver in my xorg.conf file, as explained here <a
href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting:NVP:_Timed_out_waiting_for_free_video_buffers">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting:NVP:_Timed_out_waiting_for_free_video_buffers</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I still don’t know why it worked fine a week ago. Possibly a system update or installing VLC? Oh well, as long as it’s working now.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>David<o:p></o:p></pre></div>
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