[mythtv-users] System hangs when scrolling thru a menu

[John F. DeLuca]

You can see the nVidia drivers available for your dist here:

http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/name/nvidia-graphics/

On 27 Feb 2004 at 7:33, Nowhere wrote:

> Sorry to reply to my own thread but I seem to have another minor
> problem. Intermittantly, when working in the priority section, when I
> click enter/space/ok on a show to pull up the recording options (ie to
> delete the schedule), the mythfrontend just disappears. The backend is
> fine.
> 
> I would post logs but there is no frontend log (correct?) and there is
> nothing unual in the backend log.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas? 
> 
> Also, Axel mentioned we have 5 versions of the nvidia drivers on
> atrpms. Which 5 are there so I can check the release notes on each? Is
> there a way I can tell?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Eric
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of nowhere at cox.net
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:09 AM To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] System hangs when scrolling thru a menu
> 
> I assembled my new mythbox and installed myth last night and all was
> working very well (both TVcards, recording, liveTV, weather etc...).
> Many thanks to Jarod for his exceptional guide! I do have one rather
> severe problem however.  
> 
> When scrolling down in the "Fix Scheduling Conflict" menu with a
> couple dozen shows queued (no actual conflicts btw), my frontend will
> hang completely, requiring a hard reset to continue. It always occurs
> once the last item in the menu appears at the bottom slot of the
> displayed items.  Occasionally it will hang up if I simply scroll up
> and down in the middle of the list. The hang is simply that the PC
> will no longer take any input. I cannot esc out with remote or
> keyboard and ctrl-alt-del will not give me the logout option. The
> screen remains with the last state myth was in before the hang. It
> does not go black or distort in anyway.
> 
> Hardware:
> Athlon XP2000+
> Corsair 512MB
> Seagate 7200 80GB HD
> MSI K7N2GM-L motherboard
>  (integrated GF4 with 8mb shared RAM, nForce2 lan and audio)
> 2x PVR-250
> 
> 
> software:
> Jarod's recommended nvidia nForce2 and gForce drivers
> ATrpms kernel 2174 (the one recommended by Axel on this list a couple
> days ago) myth 0.14 lirc extra audio buffing enabled jitter reduction
> enabled de-interlace disabled (atm) using VGA out to a SONY monitor
> GF4 TV-out enabled but not tested yet
> 
> I followed Jarod's guide with only one hitch which was the thing he
> suggested must be done for the install to go off without a hitch. I
> forgot to comment out the KDE-redhat lines so mythtv-suite did not
> install and I went on and installed the PVR drivers and realized the
> mistake when mplayer was not found. I then installed mythtv correctly
> and continued. Don't know if the order is important.
> 
> The only other quirk is when upgraded the kernel, I had to rpm -e
> {nforce drivers} in order to install the rebuilt ones and from then on
> out I would get a warning on certain apt-get processes complaining
> about something powerk7.so (don't remember the exact warning and I'm
> at work right now, shhhh). 
> 
> Other than this hang, the system is operating flawlessly.
> 
> >From the nature of the problem it seems to act like an array indexing
> problem but since the system hangs I get no error message. I'm not
> sure where to check for this error in a log either.
> 
> Please give me a hint where to start tracking this problem down.
> 
> Thanks much for the support!
> 
> Eric
> 
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