Since upgrading to Karmic (Mythbuntu 9.10) my ATV is almost unusable. For the
first time in years, I am back to watching cable. Bah. A number of problems:1)
Video resolution is hosed. I output to a big screen projection TV (RCA MM52110)
using a component video cable. My TV doesn't have HDMI. It is a 4x3 screen.
When boot is finished and the desktop is showing, I have a small desktop in the
middle of the screen that is taller than it is wide. I use the nvidia settings
app and change the resolution to 1920x1080 and then the desktop more than fils
the screen. To be clear, that is what I had prior to upgrade. I never could
match the desktop size to the screen size. Unfortunately, it does not retain
the setings upon reboot. I adjusted xorg.conf, but no joy. I am using the 1.85
version of the nvidia driver. My other choice is 1.77. During the upgrade, I
believe that when i had an option, I used my existing version of config
files.2) Network is flaky, difficulty connecting to AP and when it does
connect, it SEEMS to be a poor connection.
3) VNC drops connection and then won't connect, maybe network related.If I can
get 1 and 3 fixed, I can keep troubleshooting. I have been working on this for
about 10 days with no joy. Has anyone sucessfully upgraded to Karmic and can
share their lessons learned? All this after Robert finally helped me get my
remote squared away. Thanks.
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When my nvidia clocks were full speed I had those same symptoms.
However, it looks like your gpu and memory clocks are slowed down, 196
and 499 respectively. I run mine at 200 and 756. I use the following
to set all my nvidia related stuff.
These lines in /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf
options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords="PerfLevelSrc=0x2222"
options nvidia NVreg_Mobile=0
These lines in /home/$user/.mythtv/session
#!/bin/sh
xset -dpms
xset s off
nvidia-settings -a GPUOverclockingState=1
nvidia-settings -a GPU2DClockFreqs=200,760
This line in the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Option "RegistryDwords" "RMDisableRenderToSysmem=1"
These lines in the Screen section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Option "UseEvents" "1"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "Coolbits" "1"
And this line in the Extensions section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Option "Composite" "Disable"
And running this to enable nvidia Xvmc
sed -i -e 's/^libXvMC.so.1$/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1/' /etc/X11/
XvMCConfig
I think that's all of my video related configuration items I use for
running Mythbuntu 9.04 with MythTV 21.
I hope that helps, but this could be a 22 issue. I have not tested
myth 22 frontends yet with the ATV(I'd mostly be worried about memory
usage with 22 and Mythbuntu 9.10). Although that is high up on my
priority list as there are some 22 backend features I'm looking to
implement in my setup.
Robert
On Nov 11, 6:41 pm, iitywygms <[email protected]> wrote:
> -- General info --
> Card: nVidia Geforce Go 7300
> Architecture: NV46/G72 A3
> PCI id: 0x1d7
> GPU clock: 196.875 MHz
> Bustype: PCI-Express
>
> -- Pipeline info --
> Pixel units: 2x2 (11b)
> Vertex units: 3x1 (111b)
> HW masked units: None
> SW masked units: None
>
> -- Memory info --
> Amount: 64 MB
> Type: 128 bit DDR3
> Clock: 499.500 MHz
>
> -- PCI-Express info --
> Current Rate: 2X
> Maximum rate: 16X
>
> -- Sensor info --
> Sensor: GPU Internal Sensor
> GPU temperature: 58C
>
> -- VideoBios information --
> Version: 05.72.22.68.00
> Signon message: GeForce Go 7300 VGA BIOS (Apple M63)
> Performance level 0: gpu 360MHz/memory 720MHz/100%
>
> On Nov 11, 6:26 pm, Phil Chadwick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I also get constant prebuffering errors in .21, but my video plays fine.
>
> > I always set the clocks via command line- I have no desktop to load other
> > programs (thanks to some tweaks from Robert)
>
> > could you post the output of your "nvclock -i"?
>
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: iitywygms <[email protected]>
> > To: atv-bootloader <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Wed, November 11, 2009 6:10:02 PM
> > Subject: [atv-bootloader] Re: mythtv does not perform well since mythtv .22
> > upgrade
>
> > Robert:
>
> > Your suggestion fixed what seems to be several issues.
> > No more errors shown in ifconfig.
> > The tv play back start much faster. 3-4 seconds
> > The audio/video seems to be in sync. I have only watched about 10
> > minutes but it seems better.
> > I will report back if I notice sync errors again.
>
> > Not fixed.
>
> > I still get constant prebuffering errors. So many that I have to
> > delete the error logs or my drive would fill up quickly.
>
> > If I am reading the nvidia -i correctly, I am NOT setting my gpu
> > clocks correctly. I still have to go in and manually adjust the
> > sliders. But, according to nvidia -i they are not sticking, correct?
> > Could that be causing the prebuffering errors?
>
> > I know that I did not get this many prebuffering errors before mythtv .
> > 22
>
> > If it matters, I am using the mythbuntu daily release repos.
>
> > Any other suggestions?
>
> > On Nov 10, 11:14 pm, Robert Baptista <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Sorry, that second command shouldn't be 'update-initramfs -u' it
> > > should be 'update-grub' and accept the 'package maintainers version'.
>
> > > Robert
>
> > > On Nov 10, 10:20 pm, Robert Baptista <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > You should be able to fix the network errors by running the following
> > > > commands. Basically just adding 'processor.max_cstate=2' to the kopt
> > > > line in menu.lst.
>
> > > > sed -i -e "s/^# kopt=root=UUID=.* ro$/& processor.max_cstate=2/" /boot/
> > > > grub/menu.lst
> > > > update-initramfs -u
>
> > > > Setting the max_cstate is explained on the boards here somewhere. I
> > > > don't think that is causing any of yours issues though.
>
> > > > Robert
>
> > > > > ifconfig shows errors.
>
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