[mythtv-users] Slow menus - X claims 99% CPU - help!

[CHRIS KOTTING]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:04:13 +1000, Iain Waugh wrote
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got an odd one here - I've got OpenGL menus working beautifully  
> (fading in and out smoothly), but the standard ones (editing program 
>  schedules, selecting which recording to view, etc.) take about 1-2  
> seconds to navigate each one and the 'X' process claims 99% CPU.
> 
> It's not the theme - they all do it.
> 
> I don't think it's the window manager - twm, evilwm and fluxbox do it.
> 
> I've got nVidia compiled in and the binary drivers loaded and 
> running  
> (glxgears > 2000fps).  Gentoo linux, mythtv 0.20_p11281, xorg 7.0.
> 
> I've had this problem with mythtv 0.19, too - gave up after 2 weeks. 
>   I've got 0.16 running on an old system just fine.
> 
> Any ideas? Any pointers to help further debugging?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Iain
> 

Iain -

I had some success with commenting out the "RenderAccel" line in xorg.conf.  
The newer nVidia drivers don't seem to need it.  Also, check out Jarrod 
Wilson's instructions for a Fedora Core install, as they include some tweaks 
for mysql that help as well.

Chris K.