[mythtv-users] Mythmusic - CVS and other scary things

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 14:30, Kyle Kelly wrote:
> Steve Dorsey wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> >   I FTPd my 24GB of MP3s across to the Myth box. Woohoo! It allowed
> > me time to get some lunch.
> >
> >   Now that the music is there, I am finding that accessing it is
> > slooooooow. Myth lets me into the music listening area, and I can
> > choose songs, but - even if I choose only 2 or 3 songs - response
> > is painfully slow when playing them. I have thousands of tunes in
> > the giant "select music" list, but only 3 songs are selected.
> >
> >   I searched the gossamer threads, and I found a few (very
> > colorful) threads dealing with database accessing and fixes or
> > "patches". They mentioned CVS. All I know about CVS is that it is
> > used for version control for developers. We used it once at a
> > dot-com I worked at to keep track of changes for our back-end
> > technology development. Since I was a web designer, I never needed
> > it much. I just created templates and gave them to developers.
> >
> >   Do I really need to install CVS to get these fixes for MythMusic?
> > I sure hope not - I'm feeling like a developer more and more every
> > day, and I'm not sure if I'm ready to be that intelligent. My head
> > may explode.
> >
> > Either way, good work, y'all. I appreciate your help.
> >
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> If by slow you mean that mythmusic is very unresponsive, and seems to
> lock up etc, and you are using redhat or fedora try this:
>
> in the terminal before you run mythfrontend run this:
>
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
>
> then run mythfrontend, that should fix the problem, has to do with
> redhat's threading or somesuch, do a search for the lines above in
> the list archives for more details.

I'm curious... I'm running Fedora with an ATrpms kernel, and I've never 
noticed this problem with MythMusic.  It seems to perform just as well 
as it did under RH8 before changed distros.  Anybody know if there are 
other factors that cause this to be an issue?  Just curious.

-JAC