[mythtv-users] Can't get glx to load

[Jerry Rubinow]

On 1/27/06, kteague at speakeasy.net <kteague at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > But aside from that, I'm not doing XvMC on the onboard video.  The CPU
> > is maxed.  Would that be the case if the CPU was waiting for the bus
> > to be free?
>
> Hmm, I'm afraid I don't have an answer to that.  The first thing I'd do is use "top" to check CPU load and find out which programs are using the most.  I'd also do a "ps aux" to view all running processes, identify those that are not needed, and prevent them from loading.  Also check loaded modules and remove those that are not necessary.  Lastly, I'd custom compile my own kernel.
>
> The easiest way to accomplish this is with a base install of a certain distribution.  Lets take Debian, as an example.  Download and burn the NetInstall CD and perform the installation.  Towards the end of the install, you're given a choice as to whether the PC is to be an e-mail server, DNS server, desktop, web server, etc..  Cancle out of that and you have a fairly clean base system with very few unwanted services running in the background.  Build
>
> Most of what I stated here will free up more memory than it would CPU cycles, but those services that are running in the background will use some CPU cycles from time to time.  And, from what I've read from your posts, you're almost there, and you just need to free up a few more CPU cycles to prevent it from being fully taxed.  Stopping some services via their init.d scripts may get you there.
>
> - Ken

I've been running top, and CPU occasionally is a couple of percent
when the system is idle, but that's all.  I'm starting to think about
a carefully compiled kernel, that could help.  I'm running Fedora, and
although I've only compiled kernels under Debian before, I don't
expect it should be much trouble.  Thanks for the suggestions.

-Jerry