What's the resolution to this? I just upgraded my system from FC3 to FC4 (new nvidia drivers, 0.18 -> 0.18.1, etc) installed from AT's packages. I have the exact same problem.
On 5/26/05, Ramzy Darwish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I have scoured the archives looking for an answer to my problem. Somehow, I > have totally screwed up my installation of mythfrontend. The backend seems > to be working just fine, but somehow, I mucked things up and my frontend > won't start correctly. > > I just upgraded my video card drivers and they seem to be happy with X all > alone. But if I start mythfrontend, the "Prescaling images" dialogs appear, > progress and disappear, but then the frontend just hangs there. > > And if I check top, my cpu usage is at like 97/98% with X gobbling all of > it. I can't kill mythfrontend and the only thing that seems to work is to > kill X manually and forcefully. I can't use the mouse or keyboard within X > and I can't get to a command-line. If I have an ssh session open to the > machine though, I can do stuff no problem. So the machine is not dying, just > something about the interaction of X and mythfrontend. I did just upgrade to > .18.1 and everything was going fine. > > THe only change I have made is my video card drivers. I did try to reinstall > the old ones and uninstall the new ones etc., but this made both the NVIDIA > installer and emerge (gentoo) angry and the only thing I am now able to do > successfully is install the newest driver from the Nvidia installer. > > I don't really know what to look for. No errors show up in any logs (i.e. > system or mythbackend). > > If I run mythfrontend -v all | tee output, I get: > 2005-05-26 23:26:10.595 New DB connection, total: 1 > Total desktop width=640, height=480, numscreens=1 > 2005-05-26 23:26:10.610 Using screen 0, 640x480 at 0,0 > 2005-05-26 23:26:10.620 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 > www.mythtv.org > 2005-05-26 23:26:10.622 Enabled verbose msgs :all > 2005-05-26 23:26:10.974 max_width: 640 max_height: 480 > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.136 Switching to square mode (Titivillus) > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.477 /root/.mythtv/joystickmenurc not found. > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.479 Joystick disabled. > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.500 New DB connection, total: 2 > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.625 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.661 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media > handler > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.665 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media > handler > 2005-05-26 23:26:12.286 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media > handler > 2005-05-26 23:26:12.667 generating cache image for: > /usr/local/share/mythtv/them > es/default/blank.png > 2005-05-26 23:26:13.221 Starting media monitor. > > > Now, I don't know if it necessarily means anything that the media monitor > message is the last because I can start and use mythfrontend (somewhat) over > a VNC connection. I can start mythfrontend and the menu comes up just fine > and I can move around and even watch recordings (not actually watch, but > they show up and I can play them). > > I did look into the media monitor problems some people had and tried > disabling "Monitor CD/DVD", but that did nothing. > > I don't know how I screwed it up this bad. I did try reinstalling myth and > mythplugins, but that didn't work. > > I really have been loving my system for over a year now and this has been > the first big problem since getting it set up initially. > > Please let me know what other info you need me to let you know. I did > compile mythtv with debug support, so I can send a stack trace if need be, > but since there is not a crash or anything, I wonder if that's what is > needed. > > Sorry if I'm not giving you much to go on, I really want to be helpful to > all you wonderful people who have helped me in the past. Be gentle ;) > > Some info on my system: > OS: Gentoo > CPU: Dual P3 1000Mhz > RAM: 1GB DDR > Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 4 440 MX > Previous version of driver: 1.0-6111 > Current version of driver: 1.0-7174 (and they seem to be working) > uname -a: Linux frontend1 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #6 Sat Mar 26 17:18:25 CST 2005 > i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > I hope this is the type of info you need. I didn't change any config files > or anything when I upgraded drivers. > > Thanks in advance, > ramzy > _______________________________________________ > 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
