[mythtv] Re: waiting for free video buffers timed out

[Johan]

fyi: I also had the nvidia kernel module on my failing setup...


Johan

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 16:29, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
>  	I appreciate the suggestions, and I will probably uninstall my 
> tarball+patch+hack '100zz' and try out your 'testing' RPM instead (to make 
> it easier later).  I upgraded to the latest rpms, and xorg went from
> xorg-x11-6.7.0-5
> to
> xorg-x11-6.7.0-9
> 
>  	Unfortunately, that didn't fix the problem.  The good news is that 
> I think I figured out what it was, and why more people don't have it. 
> Since I've been trying a number of different vid cards, drivers, etc, 
> there was some vestigial cruft in the xorg.conf and modprobe.conf.  For 
> some reason, either X or mythtv was still loading the nvidia kernel module 
> and breaking the 'ati' driver card for video play.  Getting rid of
> 
> ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia" (xorg.conf)
> and
> # nvidia kernel module
> alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-6111 (modprobe.conf)
> 
> made it go.
> 
> Thanks for all the suggestions, and hopefully the 100zz rpm will go 
> nicely.
> 
> -Cory
> 
> *************************************************************************
> * Cory Papenfuss							*
> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 			*
> *************************************************************************
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:17:19PM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> >> 	*sigh*... I feel a re-install in my future.  Oh well, with 100zz
> >> from Axel on the horizon at least the install should be easier.
> >
> > 100zz has already landed.
> > (in "testing", and testing is appreciated, but is not to be considered
> > "stable" yet :)
> >
> > I wouldn't reinstall FC2, just upgrade to the currently available rpms.
> >
> > But I don't think this error has something to do with the capture card
> > drivers, as you write that it occurs during playback.
> >
> > Try uninstalling all capture card drivers and see if the error is
> > still there. Next use X drivers from xorg only and not from ATI, to
> > check whether the error is in the video driver. Finally if the error
> > is still there it would look like it has been isolated to mythtv.
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >> -Cory
> >>
> >> *************************************************************************
> >> * Cory Papenfuss							*
> >> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
> >> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 			*
> >> *************************************************************************
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Johan wrote:
> >>
> >>> I reinstalled FC2 using Jarods guide. Everything is working fine now.
> >>> I did not install at-bleeding this time. Maybe that made the
> >>> difference...
> >>>
> >>> Johan
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 17:08, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> >>>> 	Any results from this experiment?  The only weirdness I can think
> >>>> of with my box is that it's a dual PIII (VIA VP6) with an older ATI card.
> >>>>
> >>>> 	Still have no resolution with my machine.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks!
> >>>> -Cory
> >>>>
> >>>> *************************************************************************
> >>>> * Cory Papenfuss							*
> >>>> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
> >>>> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 		 *
> >>>> *************************************************************************
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Johan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:26, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> >>>>>> 	Hey all... just wondering if there's an idea for a resolution on
> >>>>>> 	this.
> >>>>>> I saw it in the archives from a few days ago, and it just started
> >>>>>> happening to
> >>>>>> me.  It appears to do this when using r128 or ati (mach64) cards, but
> >>>>>> not with
> >>>>>> nvidia on a tnt2.  When trying to play a video through mythtv, it just
> >>>>>> continously spits out:
> >>>>>> waiting for free video buffers timed out
> >>>>>> waiting for free video buffers timed out
> >>>>>> waiting for free video buffers timed out
> >>>>>> waiting for free video buffers timed out
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -Cory
> >>>>>
> >>>>> hey,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I reported the problem here
> >>>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/85563
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have sis 650 for video output(onboard).
> >>>>> Could not wait for a solution and installed FC2 again.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Now I am upgrading package by package to see if it comes back...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Johan
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
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