[mythtv-users] OT problem with Xorg

[Gary Dawes]

2008/6/29 Brian Wood <beww at beww.org>:

> On Sunday 29 June 2008 12:26:10 Gary Dawes wrote:
> > My mythbox which is based on knoppmyth, has recently deveoped a problem
> > where once X is loaded Xorg uses as much CPU as it can, frequently 99.9%.
> > This is having the result of making the box unusable.
> >
> > I have checked though all the log files I can find, restarted the box,
> > reinstalled the Nvidia drivers, and searched this mail list, the
> knoppmyth
> > forums and google til my fingers bled, but I cannot find any cause.
> >
> > Nothing has changed on the box, unless some driver or library has
> > mysteriously corrupted.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas before I rebuild the damn thing.
>
> Are you using UseEvents True ?
>
> This generally reduces CPU load, but of course the question is if things
> were
> working initially, what changed?
>
> Did you upgrade your drivers or anything like that.
>
> I have noticed that chronic updaters (and I include myself) seem to get
> into
> trouble with MythTV a lot. Basically if it's working leave it alone,
> something hard for a lot of us Linux users :-)
>
> beww
>

 I've managed to leave the box well alone for a long while, last software
change was when 0.21 was released. Last hardware change was a new power
supply about 8 weeks ago. It was working fine on Friday as I was watching
various recordings. I restarted the box on Saturday morning as it appeared
very unrepsonsive.

My feeling is that some library or such has corrupted. Either that or it's a
graphic card gone bad. It does seem to be whenever X tries to launch an
application such as the frontend or mythwelcome. I've commented out the
lines in the fluxbox conf file which starts mythwelcome, and X is Ok until I
do anything.

I've popped the use events true in the Xorg,conf, and checked that there is
plenty of disk space, even checked that the network is up - I'm stumped.
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