[mythtv-users] Suspend2Ram and mythfrontend

[Jon]

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Alex Halovanic wrote:
> I've been working on suspending my backend/frontend system to ram,
> using uswsusp and s2ram, and I've got only one problem left.  After
> resuming I can't start mythfrontend without the system going into a
> hard lock right when mythfrontend finishes loading the theme images:
> the little mythtv logo in the corner is displayed, and then nothing
> happens and the system freezes.  There's nothing in the logs that I
> can find that indicates a problem.  The really odd thing is that if I
> suspended with mythfrontend running, it comes back from the suspend
> perfectly, lirc works, I can watch tv, etc. (once mythbackend gets
> restarted).  If I exit this mythfrontend and start it again, I get the
> same hard lock, at the same point.
> 
> Does anyone else have this same issue or is it something specific to
> my hardware, an Asus a8n csm?

You need to use nVidia's agp implementation instead of agpgart AND a
recent nVidia driver.  If agpgart is built into the kernel, add agp=off
to grub/lilo.  Add Option NvAGP 1 to your Device section in xorg.conf
> 
> What I've learned so far: The freeze always happens at the same point,
> when starting an instance of mythfrontend after a suspend2ram.  It
> does not depend on the theme.  Restarting X, and reloading the nvidia
> binary driver have no effect.  I seem to have the appropriate amount
> of free ram available.  The problem does not appear when I suspend to
> disk.

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