Thanks to everyone who replied. I thought I would post an update even though I am dead in the water due to the hard drive crashing.
1) I recorded a show. The file was created, but trying to watch the show resulted in the same blank screen crash that I have gotten originally entering LiveTV. I think this points to an nvidia driver issue particular to the myth internal player. (mplayer works fine). 2) I was very optimistic about Brian's suggestion of removing the "load glx" from the xorg.conf. I commented it out, and even restarted the machine (not just X) but the problem persisted. 3) I am running 64 bit Fedora Core 4 The last time I tested, after the crash, I did not restart it right away. When I came back, I had to power cycle the box. It now only boots into grub. Even running the FC4 install again stops with a disk error! Is it a coincidence that the hard drive went bad then? Can a software crash leave a hard drive in a state that it can not be re-partitioned and re-formatted? --BobG -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Wood Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:29 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] New Install - Hang on entering live tv On Jan 18, 2006, at 8:42 PM, Nick wrote: > On 18/01/06, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have searched the archives and googled this topic to no avail. >> >> >> >> When I select "Watch Live TV" from the main menu. >> >> * the screen goes blank >> >> * sometimes I hear a brief time of audio then it stops >> >> * X consumes 98% of cpu >> >> * the keyboard / mouse is unresponsive >> >> * both backend and front end continue to run. >> >> * I can still ssh in and recover by doing "init 3", "init 5" > > Are you running 32-bit or 64-bit Fedora? > > Can you successfully record shows and then watch them back within > MythTV? If you can, I'd think that the LiveTV config was somehow > causing the problem. If you can't watch recordings, it's possibly the > video driver itself? Sorry, haven't really followed this thread, but the 98% CPU usage issue I have run into. Are you using the nVidia drivers? if so the GLX vsync issue may be your problem. Try commenting out "load glx" in your X config file, at least this solved the problem for me. _______________________________________________ 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
