[mythtv-users] Mythtv hard freezes my box!

[roger]

# cat /var/log/Xorg.1.log |grep accel
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling experimental RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture

Yup, this did it!  

So, to resolve it, modify xorg.conf to show:
Option "NoRenderAccel"          "on"    # default=off

Works like a charm now.  I'm really surprised there is no error checking
within the mythbackend or mythtvsetup to catch a condition like this.

I'm seeing nothing within the specified log file (via mythbackend
daemon) when mythbackend is set to log all errors.


On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 12:55 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 August 2005 01:23 am, roger wrote:
> > 1. # mythtv-setup
> > 2. Do you want to erase (some files)?
> > 3. Hard freeze after a minute of two.
> >
> > I'm using a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop with an Nvidia Geforce card.
> >
> > I've also tried the optional acpi=no noapic options on boot but have not
> > verified the commands were accepted on boot (ie. dmesg)
> >
> > (My gut tells me this has to be a known issue!)
> 
> Turn off renderaccel in your x config, sounds like the standard nvidia x 
> driver bug.  If you followed the normal gentoo mythtv howto, you turned this 
> on, and that's _not_ what you want to do.
> 
> Isaac
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Tue Aug 2 17:38:00 PDT 2005