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

[Hans-Erik.Floryd]

Hi,

Thomas Hellstr?m wrote:
> Hi,
> Paul Bender wrote:
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>>Thomas Hellstr?m wrote:
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>>>>Paul Bender wrote:
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>>>>>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.
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>>>OK. I've tried another approach in latest SVN, avoiding gettimeofday.
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>>>/Thomas
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>>Great. Thank you. So far, it appears to be working.
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> Good. Keep us updated. Also please check if you see any timeout messages in
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

I've been running it for a couple of hours now, with no problems. Also 
no timeout messages in the log. Thanks!

/Hans-Erik

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