[olug] A mythtv mythtery

Rob Townley rob.townley at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 14:47:52 UTC 2012


Dave if you need the older AGP / PCI VGA cards,  let me know ... some are
still shrink wrapped.

On Tuesday, April 24, 2012, Dave Thacker <dthacker at bluestrain.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 07:09:06 AM Ben Watson wrote:
>> It sounds to me more like a MythTV frontend problem vice the backend
>> running on the system.  I've got front ends (and other backends for
>> that matter) running on much older/slower hardware than you mentioned
>> without issue.  What video card are you using for display?  Also might
>> want to check the drivers for said video card.
>>
>> Across the board I typically use NVidia video cards with the
>> proprietary NVidia drivers.  Again, these aren't anything new or
>> powerful though I have noticed some compatibility issues with the
>> newer NVidia (Ubuntu provided) drivers and older card/machine setups.
>> However, when I've run into these problems, I rarely get to the point
>> to getting into a stable desktop environment let alone playing back
>> video.
>>
>> Ben
>
> It's the Dell onboard video.   I'll be trying some of the cards I've had
> rattling around too.
>
> DT
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Shannon <ridgid at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > cpu load test?  can you loop some thing.. run some folding at home or
>> > something.. bit coin mining
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