[mythtv-users] Long delays with remote occasionally

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Sat May 23 16:24:17 UTC 2009


On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2009/5/23 Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>:
>> Thanks for the info...I'll have to give that a try.  I'm still using
>> the 177.82 drivers.  Since upgrading xorg I gave OpenGL a try for a
>> while, but last night I got a one of those black screen lockups, so I
>> went back to RTC.  I see that 180.51 is the current driver...maybe
>> I'll give that a try.
>
> Are you using the opengl rendering ?
>
> There's a fix to prevent black screen ; it's a bug in the nvidia
> drivers when using OpenGL > 1.2.
>
> Mark Kendall released a patch for working around it.
>
> http://www.btinternet.com/~mark_kendall/

Nope...I'm using xv.  It was simply using OpenGL vsync that
occasionaly caused problems.  Most of the time this has been
specifcally when when an opengl xscreensaver kicked in during paused
video.

Tom


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