It seems this has stumped a lot of myth users. Proposed solutions include setting kernel arguments as mentioned above or setting the CPU governor to "performance" from "ondemand" (i.e. echo performance > / sys/devices/system/cpu/*/cpufreq/scaling_governor).
However, it looks like the solution, in this case, is simple (and the reason for it somewhat intuitive). I mistakenly had my playback profile set to use 2 CPUs (Setup->TV Setting->Playback->CPU-- Profile). After setting the number of CPUs back to 1, I've been unable to reproduce this error. I was still able to make the Apple TV unceremoniously crash by watching a station with a weak signal (but with a different error). Hope this helps someone else. Bruce On Oct 1, 11:25 am, Bruce E <bhelm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm still having occasional issues with my apple TV's video getting > hung while watching Live TV, requiring a reboot. The culprit seems to > be related to the following error message: > > NVP: Timed out waiting for free video buffers > > I've done some googling, but haven't been able to find a definitive > answer. Some possible leads include passing "noapic" and/or > "acpi_use_timer_override" as kernel arguments (I assume you can do > this by simply editing the grub/menu.lst file and running update- > grub), but I haven't tried this yet. > > Has anyone else encountered this error? If so, does anyone have a > fix? > > Thanks, > > Bruce -- To post to this group, send email to atv-bootloader@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en
