[mythtv-users] XFree86 CPU utilization

[Michael Greb]

Isaac Richards said:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2003 12:48 pm, Joe Yang wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>   When I watched recorded program or live TV, I can
>> see XFree86 uses 35% ~ 45% CPU. Is this normal or
>> not. I am quite sure the xvideo has been enabled on my
>> S3 ProSavageDDR KM233 chip. I also tried nvidia TNT2
>> Riva with nvidia binary driver, I still got same thing. Is it normal
>> or not?
>
> Not.
>
> Isaac

I had similar problems on a system I was using.  The author of tvtime
seems to think it was due to using a PCI rather then AGP graphics card and
his reasoning seemed very probable.  In my case it was a Geforce 4 MX with
the nvidia binary drivers and XFree was around 30% on a 1.7Ghz Celeron. 
To contrast that I have a frontend running on an X-Box, a 750MHz system,
with X using around 1% IIRCC.  Are you using PCI or AGP video cards?

Michael