[mythtv-users] NVIDIA woes? X starts spinning at 95-99% cpu all of a sudden

[Jerry Rubinow]

On 6/19/06, Jeff <jeff3140 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This was on a box which was up for 24 hours, had recorded some shows,
> played back some shows. It was basically working fine. The box was
> recently upgraded so it doesn't have more of a history (other than
> working fine before the upgrade).
>
> Today i was navigating through the menues on the frontend and it hung.
> Looking from another session showed X as the top cpu process with 99%
> or so.

Run nvidia-settings and make sure all the VBlank checkboxes related to
textures are unchecked.  Note that these settings have to be loaded
every time X is started.

-Jerry