Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-01-16 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:15:32AM +0100, Udo Richter wrote: Marko Mäkelä wrote: While VDR is running, I would guess that the only way it can become interactive is by receiving button events from the remote control unit. Hmm, ok, I was mainly thinking of becoming inactive - since this is

[vdr] VDR not starting properly with softdevice on boot

2007-01-16 Thread Kartsa
I have Fedora Core 6 and vdr installed using yum. The problem is that it takes all the cpu time after boot and I have to restart vdr to make it run properly. I have vdr-1.4.4 with softdevice-0.3.1 and subtitles-0.4.0. My cpu is PIII 550MHz and I use softdevice with Matrox G400 (and DirectFB).

Re: [vdr] VDR not starting properly with softdevice on boot

2007-01-16 Thread Kartsa
Marko Mäkelä kirjoitti: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:36:59PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: Any hints? I.e. how/when should matroxfb kernel module be loaded? Now I load it in rc.modules. Have you tried OProfile or strace -p pid of vdr, or attaching gdb to the running vdr process? Hmm, what's

Re: [vdr] VDR not starting properly with softdevice on boot

2007-01-16 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:53:21PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: Have you tried OProfile or strace -p pid of vdr, or attaching gdb to the running vdr process? Hmm, what's OProfile? I am not quite sure if I am starting matroxfb in the right place. OProfile is a continuous profiler for processors

Re: [vdr] VDR not starting properly with softdevice on boot

2007-01-16 Thread Kartsa
Marko Mäkelä kirjoitti: For some reason I can not get it to load automatically with udev settings. There is a There is a what? There was something braking my thoughts. Dont really know now what I was going to say :) I'll get back to that if it comes to mind. You could add matroxfb to

Re: [vdr] VDR not starting properly with softdevice on boot

2007-01-16 Thread Tony Houghton
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kartsa wrote: I've never tried xine plugin. Does it need X to work? The plugin doesn't really care what version of xine you use to connect to it. df_xine is a version of xine that uses DirectFB instead of X. I use it myself on a Matrox G450. -- TH *

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-01-16 Thread Udo Richter
Marko Mäkelä wrote: Right, becoming inactive is not that time-critical. I will give your suggestion a try: in the MainThreadHook of each plugin, poll Shutdown.IsUserInactive(). It should work, though the first key press may trigger some longer work, and the MainThreadHook will be called at