[mythtv-users] New Install - Hang on entering live tv

[Bob]

Thanks to everyone who replied. I thought I would post an update even though
I am dead in the water due to the hard drive crashing.

1) I recorded a show. The file was created, but trying to watch the show
resulted in the same blank screen crash that I have gotten originally
entering LiveTV. I think this points to an nvidia driver issue particular to
the myth internal player. (mplayer works fine). 

2) I was very optimistic about Brian's suggestion of removing the "load glx"
from the xorg.conf. I commented it out, and even restarted the machine (not
just X) but the problem persisted.

3) I am running 64 bit Fedora Core 4

The last time I tested, after the crash, I did not restart it right away.
When I came back, I had to power cycle the box. It now only boots into grub.
Even running the FC4 install again stops with a disk error! Is it a
coincidence that the hard drive went bad then? Can a software crash leave a
hard drive in a state that it can not be re-partitioned and re-formatted?

--BobG

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brian Wood
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:29 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] New Install - Hang on entering live tv




On Jan 18, 2006, at 8:42 PM, Nick wrote:

> On 18/01/06, Bob <mythtv at junga.com> wrote:
>> I have searched the archives and googled this topic to no avail.
>>
>>
>>
>> When I select "Watch Live TV" from the main menu.
>>
>> * the screen goes blank
>>
>> * sometimes I hear a brief time of audio then it stops
>>
>> * X consumes 98% of cpu
>>
>> * the keyboard / mouse is unresponsive
>>
>> * both backend and front end continue to run.
>>
>> * I can still ssh in and recover by doing "init 3", "init 5"
>
> Are you running 32-bit or 64-bit Fedora?
>
> Can you successfully record shows and then watch them back within
> MythTV? If you can, I'd think that the LiveTV config was somehow
> causing the problem. If you can't watch recordings, it's possibly the
> video driver itself?

Sorry, haven't really followed this thread, but the 98% CPU usage  
issue I have run into.

Are you using the nVidia drivers? if so the GLX vsync issue may be  
your problem. Try commenting out "load glx" in your X config file, at  
least this solved the problem for me.
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