[mythtv-users] mythtv frontend startup beautification

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Dan,

Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 5:26:21 PM, you wrote:

> On 11/19/14 10:50 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Hoi Dan,
>>
>> Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 4:03:23 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Personally, I use suspend to RAM rather than actually shutting down 
>>> my frontends. I still restart X and mythfrontend when resuming, but 
>>> that definitely lessens the ugliness. During suspend, I use this line 
>>> in irexec: 
>> No need to stop and restart X and mythfrontend. You might however need
>> to save and restore your video memory. Older nvidia cards have problems
>> with restoring from suspend. Also some kernel modules have problems
>> especially some v4l and audio modules. You might have to reload them
>> on resume. But that can all be automated.
>>
> I set this up quite some time ago, so I don't recall now why I had to 
> kill and restart X. I think it might have had something to do with 
> video, though these are ION2 boxes, so they are new-ish hardware. I may
> try it again when I get a chance.
> _______________________________________________

I've done it with 0.26 and 0.27. Only as said with one slightly older
nvidia card I have to save and restore the video memory or else I get
a corrupted screen. I guess it reinitializes on resume. It's only
slightly faster but the plus is you get your screen back as you left
it. I must say I use the tuxonice kernel addition and associated
scripts, which I find beter and easier to configure especially with
suspend to disk as I use on my laptop.


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