[mythtv-users] freezes, Fedora, Myth(TV)ology, NVidia, glx

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 8, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Peter Watkins wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:04:22PM -0500, White Joe wrote:
>
>
>> Yeah.  Been there.  Check out your xorg.conf.  You probably have glx
>> loaded in the modules section, and nvidia as the driver in the device
>> section.  If your system is like mine, then they are grumping at one
>> another.  Changing "nvidia" back to "nv" [contrary to Jarod's
>> instructions] will let you use your MythBox.  No doubt this is a  
>> mortal
>> sin, but I haven't been able to find the True Cause yet.  Whats  
>> weird is
>> that I didn't have this problem in 0.17, 0.18 or 0.18.1.
>
> I had simliar trouble. My solution was to remove the xorg.conf line
> causing glx to load, and use the frontend setup to disable the various
> OpenGL effects.
>
> I think my inability to use Picture-in-Picture may be related to my
> abandoning glx and OpenGL, but I can live with that for now. I haven't
> tried playing a DVD, but Live TV, Watch Recordings, Image Viewer,
> MythWeather, MythFlix, and MythMusic all work with glx disabled.
>

PiP and DVD viewing work for me with Load "glx" commented out, using  
7676.

Check that you are using "standard" mpeg decoding (not libmpeg2 or  
XvMC), that one caught me.