[mythtv-users] NVIDIA woes? X starts spinning at 95-99% cpu all of a sudden

[Jeff]

On 6/19/06, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/19/06, Jeff <jeff3140 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This was on a box which was up for 24 hours, had recorded some shows,
> > played back some shows. It was basically working fine. The box was
> > recently upgraded so it doesn't have more of a history (other than
> > working fine before the upgrade).
> >
> > Today i was navigating through the menues on the frontend and it hung.
> > Looking from another session showed X as the top cpu process with 99%
> > or so.
>
> Run nvidia-settings and make sure all the VBlank checkboxes related to
> textures are unchecked.  Note that these settings have to be loaded
> every time X is started.
>

Unfortunatly this did not help. I unchecked the one VBlank box
which was checked (Sync to Vblank in Video Texture Adaptor) but I
still got a freeze where X went to 99% cpu. Interestingly (or not) the
freeze only happens when I select the "Change Group View" menu.