[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.23 - Problems with Arclight and Graphite

[Rajesh Balan]

Hi Michael,

so the issues I am seeing with the loading screen not going away in 
Arclight and Graphite are due to kernel timing issues? do I need to set 
the kernel clock to 1000Hz to fix this?

Rajesh

On 12-Feb-10 2:49 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 02/11/2010 08:13 PM, Rajesh Balan wrote:
>> On 12-Feb-10 1:15 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> On 02/11/2010 05:02 AM, Rajesh Balan wrote:
>>>> I'm trying 0.23 (latest svn version r23532) and the various themes. 
>>>> I have the following problem with both Arclight and Graphite
>>>>
>>>> when I click on "Watch Recordings" (mythcenter layout), the 
>>>> recordings are shown but the loading bar never goes away. and none 
>>>> of the keypresses work. so I can't actually watch anything.  The 
>>>> same thing happens on  the new "Search Internet Video" link. The 
>>>> loading bar never goes away. I've waited up to 5 mins for the 
>>>> loading bar to go away.
>>>>
>>>> I've turned on all the debugging using -v all   and I can't see 
>>>> what the theme is blocking on. I used strace and that showed 
>>>> nothing as well.
>>>>
>>>> I then started removing things from recording-ui.xml (for 
>>>> Arclight). If I remove the file completely, the default ugly view 
>>>> shows up, but it works. the loading screen pops up for a bit and 
>>>> then goes away. with the Arclight recording-ui.xml, the loading 
>>>> screen never goes away. I tried excising little chunks inside 
>>>> recording-ui.xml to see which bits were causing the problem, but I 
>>>> did not get anything definitive. If I remove enough that the nice 
>>>> layout is destroyed, it works. But I could not find something that 
>>>> worked with the nice layout.
>>>>
>>>> I've tested the Metullagy, blue-abstract-wide, childish, and Terra 
>>>> themes and they work fine. The loading screen pops up for a bit, 
>>>> then goes away.
>>> Based on one other report, you may see that all works perfectly when 
>>> you downgrade your kernel (I'm guessing you're on a /very/ new kernel).
>> The kernel is not that new. it's 2.6.30. so about 3 months old.
>>
>> I can't use 2.6.32 as it has issues with lirc at the moment.
>
> At this point, there's no fix for it.  You'll just have to wait, or do 
> something else to change the timing on your system.
>
> It should be more stable when it really is 0.23 (and not, as it is 
> now, unstable development in trunk).
>
> Mike
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