This turned out to be a known problem with pthreads in Debian based AMD64 systems. Unfortunately, it took a lot of time to figure that out..
Here is a link to an old mailing list entry describing the problem and a patch to fix it: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/03/msg00940.html On 7/16/05, Todd Ignasiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the response. I tried adding that line to my xorg.conf, > but I still get the video problems. > > I can always open the ringbuf file with vlc. So, I know the data is > there, and VLC can reliably open the video output. It seems like a > communications problem between the frontend and backend. > > On 7/15/05, Kim Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Todd Ignasiak wrote: > > > > > But, I have probably a 20% success rate in actually viewing live TV. > > > Most of the time, I only get a blank screen and have to kill > > > mythfrontend to get out of it. > > > > I believe this may be an issue with the nvidia driver... I found that > > adding: > > > > Option "RenderAccel" "off" > > > > to the device section of the XF68Config seemed to cure it. > > > > > > kim. > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
