[mythtv] Blue screen in playback (SVN 7442)

Joshua M. Thompson funaho at jurai.org
Thu Oct 13 19:22:40 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 13:05 -0400, Glen Dragon wrote:
> Quoting Jeremy Muhlich <jmuhlich at bitflood.org>:
> 
> > That blue is the xv color key, on which the driver normally overlays the
> > video.  Once or twice I've done something to hose the nvidia driver such
> > that it won't render video and I get the same blue screen, but no errors
> > are emitted.  Rebooting fixed it.  If you can fully shut down X and
> > unload/reload the kernel module that might work too.
> 
> I also had this problem last night.  Restarting X did the trick.

It happens to me quite frequently when viewing recorded 1080i HDTV
content. Usually shutting down X and unloading/reloading the nvidia
driver fixes it, but occasionally I've had to physically reboot the
machine to get my video back.

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Joshua M. Thompson <funaho at jurai.org>



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