The key setting that mleech pointed out was setting the fft-rate lower,
uhd-fft --fft-rate 5.

I suppose the N210 can't handle the default setting, since my laptop
(corei7, 16 gig ram) doesn't seem to be the bottleneck going by cpu usage
and mem usage.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Richard Bell <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> When the window greys out, my CPU is only at 45% usage.
>
> When I run uhd_usrp_probe I get all the device info you would expect to
> get. The command works as it should.
>
> Rich
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Ron Economos <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  When a window greys out, it typically means you're using too much CPU.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>> On 12/18/2014 11:45 AM, Richard Bell wrote:
>>
>>  I created ~/.gnuradio/config.conf with the following lines in it
>>
>> [wxgui]
>> style=nongl
>>
>>  This has not fixed the window not responding issue. Any other ideas?
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Richard Bell <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't know if this matters, but I used the pybombs install method. I
>>> am looking for the .conf file, but the only thing in my .gnuradio directory
>>> is
>>>
>>> ~/.gnuradio/prefs/vmcrcbuf_default_factory
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:29 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  See "to enable OpenGL sinks" here:
>>>>
>>>> http://sdrblog.wordpress.com/gnuradio-installation/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You'll use "style=nongl", instead of "style=auto" or "style=gl"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2014-12-18 14:25, Richard Bell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Yes I'm using Unity. I forgot to mention my hardware, which is an
>>>> N210 with WBX daughterboard.
>>>>
>>>>  I'm not sure how to make the style change like you mentioned.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Martin Braun <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  On 12/18/2014 07:39 PM, Richard Bell wrote:
>>>>> > I'm using Ubuntu 14.04, UHD_003.008.00-18-g864f84b5 and GNU Radio
>>>>> 3.7.6
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Whenever I start uhd_fft from a command line, the window opens and
>>>>> > starts to plot. After about a second, the window goes into not
>>>>> > responding mode, where it greys out and you can't click anything.
>>>>> Does
>>>>> > anyone know what could be causing this behaviour? Is it a local
>>>>> setting
>>>>> > of mine?
>>>>>
>>>>>  Are you using Ubuntu's unity?
>>>>>
>>>>> It might be a GL issue. Try if setting style = nongl will help.
>>>>>
>>>>> M
>>>>>
>>>>>
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