[mythtv] Re: waiting for free video buffers timed out

[Cory Papenfuss]

 	I appreciate the suggestions, and I will probably uninstall my 
tarball+patch+hack '100zz' and try out your 'testing' RPM instead (to make 
it easier later).  I upgraded to the latest rpms, and xorg went from
xorg-x11-6.7.0-5
to
xorg-x11-6.7.0-9

 	Unfortunately, that didn't fix the problem.  The good news is that 
I think I figured out what it was, and why more people don't have it. 
Since I've been trying a number of different vid cards, drivers, etc, 
there was some vestigial cruft in the xorg.conf and modprobe.conf.  For 
some reason, either X or mythtv was still loading the nvidia kernel module 
and breaking the 'ati' driver card for video play.  Getting rid of

ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia" (xorg.conf)
and
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-6111 (modprobe.conf)

made it go.

Thanks for all the suggestions, and hopefully the 100zz rpm will go 
nicely.

-Cory

*************************************************************************
* Cory Papenfuss							*
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 			*
*************************************************************************


On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:17:19PM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
>> 	*sigh*... I feel a re-install in my future.  Oh well, with 100zz
>> from Axel on the horizon at least the install should be easier.
>
> 100zz has already landed.
> (in "testing", and testing is appreciated, but is not to be considered
> "stable" yet :)
>
> I wouldn't reinstall FC2, just upgrade to the currently available rpms.
>
> But I don't think this error has something to do with the capture card
> drivers, as you write that it occurs during playback.
>
> Try uninstalling all capture card drivers and see if the error is
> still there. Next use X drivers from xorg only and not from ATI, to
> check whether the error is in the video driver. Finally if the error
> is still there it would look like it has been isolated to mythtv.
>
>> Thanks,
>> -Cory
>>
>> *************************************************************************
>> * Cory Papenfuss							*
>> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
>> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 			*
>> *************************************************************************
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Johan wrote:
>>
>>> I reinstalled FC2 using Jarods guide. Everything is working fine now.
>>> I did not install at-bleeding this time. Maybe that made the
>>> difference...
>>>
>>> Johan
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 17:08, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
>>>> 	Any results from this experiment?  The only weirdness I can think
>>>> of with my box is that it's a dual PIII (VIA VP6) with an older ATI card.
>>>>
>>>> 	Still have no resolution with my machine.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> -Cory
>>>>
>>>> *************************************************************************
>>>> * Cory Papenfuss							*
>>>> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
>>>> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 		 *
>>>> *************************************************************************
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Johan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:26, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
>>>>>> 	Hey all... just wondering if there's an idea for a resolution on
>>>>>> 	this.
>>>>>> I saw it in the archives from a few days ago, and it just started
>>>>>> happening to
>>>>>> me.  It appears to do this when using r128 or ati (mach64) cards, but
>>>>>> not with
>>>>>> nvidia on a tnt2.  When trying to play a video through mythtv, it just
>>>>>> continously spits out:
>>>>>> waiting for free video buffers timed out
>>>>>> waiting for free video buffers timed out
>>>>>> waiting for free video buffers timed out
>>>>>> waiting for free video buffers timed out
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Cory
>>>>>
>>>>> hey,
>>>>>
>>>>> I reported the problem here
>>>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/85563
>>>>>
>>>>> I have sis 650 for video output(onboard).
>>>>> Could not wait for a solution and installed FC2 again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now I am upgrading package by package to see if it comes back...
>>>>>
>>>>> Johan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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