[Openchrome-users] [mythtv-users] MythTV Hanging on Video Exit

[Paul Bender]

Paul Bender wrote:

>Thomas Hellstr?m wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>Hans-Erik.Floryd wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>As has previously been reported on the list there seems to be a problem 
>>>with exiting video from mythtv. I'm running myth on an SP8000E board and 
>>>most of the time while exiting video I get back to the myth screen but 
>>>the system is unresponsive. Logging in remotely I can see X using 100% CPU.
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>>>I've attempted to trace the problem by adding debug output to the 
>>>driver. It appears to hang when viaStopVideo calls viaOverlayHide. 
>>>Adding further debug output to viaOverlayHide actually made the system 
>>>behave much better, it didn't crash nearly as often. When it did it 
>>>seemed that it happens while calling FlushVidRegBuffer. There's 
>>>eventually a while-loop in there (viaWaitVideoCommandFire), and my guess 
>>>is that for some reason that loop is never exited. This would explain 
>>>the 100% CPU usage.
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>>>Apart from this issue the driver is working beautifully, the mpeg2 
>>>acceleration is great!
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>>I've made two small fixes related to this report. One bugfix and one fix
>>making the above mentioned loop time out after 20 ms, which is a
>>reasonable time in this context.
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>>Could you try latest SVN (revision 149) to see if it fixes the problem.
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>>/Thomas
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>When X starts, I get the the message
>"Symbol gettimeofday from module 
>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o is unresolved!"
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>When I start Live TV in MythTV, it crashes.
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By the way, I am using xorg 6.8.2, kernel 2.6.14.5, and glibc 2.3.6.