[mythtv-users] Recent nVidia XvMC weirdness (Ubuntu 8.04) - Any thoughts on a fix?

[William]

Andy Wettstein wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 05:31:36PM -0400, William wrote:
>   
>> Hi Listland,
>>
>> I am out of ideas on how to fix this issue so I am asking for the help 
>> of the list. I am having problems getting XvMC to work with my FX5200AGP 
>> card. I recently redid my system and since then I have not been able to 
>> use xvmc support from the nVidia proprietary driver. It worked fine 
>> before the upgrade. I am currently running Ubuntu 8.04 with the drivers 
>> installed by Envy. I modified the /etc/X11/XvMCConfig file to include 
>> this single line.
>>
>> libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
>>
>> This has always working the past now however all I get is a blank screen 
>> and and a locked frontend. Everything works fine using the standard and 
>> libmpeg2 libs and I am using the same xorg.conf that served me well with 
>> my last installs. Is there something weird with 8.04 that makes it 
>> different from whatever release Mythbuntu runs?
>>     
>
> I think there are problems with AGP and XvMC with recent drivers:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=107760
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=116055
>
> I am unable to use xvmc on an AGP 6600GT without setting NvAGP to 0.
>
>   

That seemed to fix it for me. Interestingly my cpu usage is better than 
it used to be.