[mythtv-users] Mythtv system lock up when watch tv chosen

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Mon Feb 13 00:16:45 UTC 2006


Scott.Croft at cox.net wrote:
> I have tried to fix my problem for more than a week now and seem to be
> making no progress.  I have a new home built pc with fc4 installed.
> Followed the directions (best I can tell) at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/.
> All seems to work reasonably well with the backend and the front-end.  I can
> watch tv with a fc4 viewer "TVtime television viewer".  I can change
> channels and the sound is being fed back into the onboard sound ok.  I have
> the program guide downloaded it is working fine.  I have scheduled and
> recorded several shows, and they seem to show up fine with animated
> thumbnails.  The problem comes when I try to view live tv or watch one of
> the programs that I have recorded.  When one of the options is chosen the
> system locks up and the screen goes blank.  The only solution is to reboot.
> I have changed tv and video card configurations to no avail.  Using a
> terminal window I was able to log some Mythtv front-end info.  This line
> repeats over and over until the system is rebooted: "Timed out waiting for
> free video buffers".
>
> Hardware:
> AMD 64 +3200
> 1Gig ram
> Hauppauge WinTV pci card (old one)
> AGP NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX
>
> Side note:  I installed knopmyth and had the system working at one point
> with the same hardware.  Maybe i will have to go back to the easy way?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>   
Perhaps pasting said logs would be helpful

Kevin


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