Thanks, TJC.

I'm sorry, but ALT-TAB didn't work and 'pkill front' (sshing from another machine) just crashed the box. I guess you're right about it being wedged.

Peter

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AMD Athlon XP 2800+
MSI K7N2 Delta2 ATX w/FX5200 AGP video
2X256MB PC3200 RAM
Maxtor 250GB drive (master on IDE 1)
Pioneer DVR-109 (master on IDE 2)
Antec Overture II ATX case with 330watts
Hauppauge 250 in PCI slot 2

Run mythfrontend like this:

This will capture the output and let you look at it later.

Hi. I used your recommended command to launch the front end in a xterm window and then "watched" some TV. Tried the ALT-C and ALT-D just to see if they'd show up in the log. System crashed and I rebooted.

Where does it put the log?

Thanks.

Peter

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AMD Athlon XP 2800+
MSI K7N2 Delta2 ATX w/FX5200 AGP video
2X256MB PC3200 RAM
Maxtor 250GB drive (master on IDE 1)
Pioneer DVR-109 (master on IDE 2)
Antec Overture II ATX case with 330watts
Hauppauge 250 in PCI slot 2

In the same directory where you were when you ran the command...

xterm doesn't tell you where you are like bash, but I found it in

/home/mythtv

Here is the output, and yes I believe the answers are here! You are a truly venerable geek!

2005-06-30 20:26:42.932 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1
2005-06-30 20:26:42.938 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
2005-06-30 20:26:42.943 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-06-30 20:26:42.943 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-06-30 20:26:43.130 Switching to square mode (blue)
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: Connection refused
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2005-06-30 20:26:43.483 Joystick disabled.
2005-06-30 20:26:43.501 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-06-30 20:26:43.522 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler
2005-06-30 20:26:43.522 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler
2005-06-30 20:26:44.152 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler
SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.0.90:5060 NAT address 192.168.0.90
SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set
2005-06-30 20:26:56.389 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-06-30 20:26:56.421 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.0.90:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2005-06-30 20:26:56.428 Using protocol version 15
2005-06-30 20:26:56.461 Using protocol version 15
2005-06-30 20:26:58.806 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-06-30 20:26:58.806 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-06-30 20:26:58.887 Using XV port 53
2005-06-30 20:26:59.075 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2005-06-30 20:26:59.105 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-06-30 20:27:00.273 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2005-06-30 20:27:02.941 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:05.141 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:07.341 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:09.541 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:11.740 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:13.940 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:16.140 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:18.340 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:20.540 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:22.781 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:24.981 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:27.181 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:29.380 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:31.580 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
2005-06-30 20:27:33.780 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.

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AMD Athlon XP 2800+
MSI K7N2 Delta2 ATX w/FX5200 AGP video
2X256MB PC3200 RAM
Maxtor 250GB drive (master on IDE 1)
Pioneer DVR-109 (master on IDE 2)
Antec Overture II ATX case with 330watts
Hauppauge 250 in PCI slot 2

Hi. I googled mythtv video buffer and found:

http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php

Here's a quote from that page. Would his adjustment to buffers be correct for me? Thanks a lot!


"these adjustments to my.cnf under the [mysqld] section improve performance with Myth and MythWeb:

key_buffer = 16M
table_cache = 128
sort_buffer_size = 2M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
query_cache_size = 16M

UPDATE: Here are the MySQL 3.x versions of the same:

set-variable = key_buffer = 16M
set-variable = table_cache = 128
set-variable = sort_buffer = 2M
set-variable = myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
"

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AMD Athlon XP 2800+
MSI K7N2 Delta2 ATX w/FX5200 AGP video
2X256MB PC3200 RAM
Maxtor 250GB drive (master on IDE 1)
Pioneer DVR-109 (master on IDE 2)
Antec Overture II ATX case with 330watts
Hauppauge 250 in PCI slot 2

well those settings would most likely work in knoppmyth, however that is talking about mysql buffers which may improve mythweb performance, but would not do anything for video buffers which is the error you are getting.

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look at this post.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... 3&start=15

the file you are concerned with is no longer in /etc/modutils it will now be found in /etc/modprobe.d/ but could still be the same problem make sure you don't have multiple aliases for the nvidia driver.

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Thanks. One of the posts on the link in in your post suggests:


"Download the NVidia dirvers bundle directly from here http://nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ ... -6111.html again and run the installer as root. Be sure to tell it not to try to download precompiled drivers. If it whinges about overwriting a previous install force it. Then apply the fix from that posting. Check the install log it generates to make sure there are no errors."


In the morning, I'll try downloading, installing and applying the fix as indicated. Thanks for your advice.

Peter

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AMD Athlon XP 2800+
MSI K7N2 Delta2 ATX w/FX5200 AGP video
2X256MB PC3200 RAM
Maxtor 250GB drive (master on IDE 1)
Pioneer DVR-109 (master on IDE 2)
Antec Overture II ATX case with 330watts
Hauppauge 250 in PCI slot 2

I was really more pointing you to the last few posts where they talk about making sure you don't have multiple identical lines as I referenced in my previous post. I really don't think it's a problem with the nvidia install.

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Thaks for clarifying. I'll review these notes and look for that instead.

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AMD Athlon XP 2800+
MSI K7N2 Delta2 ATX w/FX5200 AGP video
2X256MB PC3200 RAM
Maxtor 250GB drive (master on IDE 1)
Pioneer DVR-109 (master on IDE 2)
Antec Overture II ATX case with 330watts
Hauppauge 250 in PCI slot 2

Clarification... Xterm is just a terminal emulator, you ARE running bash in it. If you ever have any doubt about where you are just say "pwd" and it will tell you.

man tjc where'd you get the fancy voice interaction system? lol
I ask my box stuff and call it stuff all the time, but it never tells me anything back probably a good thing. don't know if I'd want to heard what it has to say.

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Hi there. Looking in:

/etc/modprobe.d

I found the following files:
KnoppMyth
aliases
alsa-base
arch (directory)
arch-aliases
crypto
isapnp (directory)

alsa-base and arch-aliases appear to be auto-generated files.

None of the files contained multiple references to nvidia or nv, and in fact only one file, aliases, contained any nvidia reference at all. The very last line of the file is:

alias char-major-195* nvidia

Does this give us a clue as to where to look next? Thank you both.

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AMD Athlon XP 2800+
MSI K7N2 Delta2 ATX w/FX5200 AGP video
2X256MB PC3200 RAM
Maxtor 250GB drive (master on IDE 1)
Pioneer DVR-109 (master on IDE 2)
Antec Overture II ATX case with 330watts
Hauppauge 250 in PCI slot 2

unfortunately no. It just means that you are not suffering from the same problem that other guy was.

There must be a new batch of unsupported pvr250's or something as we have lots of people right now with this problem.

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