Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-29 Thread Brian Wood
On Jan 29, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Sonni Nørløv wrote: > >> I think I have see something similar, and it turned out to be related >> to the opengl driver. > > ... > > Yeah. There's a known bug in the 8178 driver that results in 100% CPU > usage when using OpenGL vsync. So, ei

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-29 Thread Michael T. Dean
Sonni Nørløv wrote: > I think I have see something similar, and it turned out to be related > to the opengl driver. ... Yeah. There's a known bug in the 8178 driver that results in 100% CPU usage when using OpenGL vsync. So, either don't use 8178 (best bet) or turn off OpenGL vsync (which r

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-29 Thread Sonni Nørløv
Hi, I think I have see something similar, and it turned out to be related to the opengl driver. On my p3 733mhz, with a similar pvr250 and fx5200 running gentoo, everything was running fine at ~25% idle when watching live tv. Then after an update, including a new nvidia driver, I got prebuff

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-22 Thread John P Poet
On 1/22/06, Andrew McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:43:36PM -0500, Anthony Vito wrote: > > > > HyperThreading is a horrible kludge. It required every OS to rewrite > > their process schedulers to not die context switching to an imaginary > > processor. The Linux kernel

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:43:36PM -0500, Anthony Vito wrote: > > HyperThreading is a horrible kludge. It required every OS to rewrite > their process schedulers to not die context switching to an imaginary > processor. The Linux kernel claims to have a hyper threading aware > scheduler, but I've

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-19 Thread Aaron Aguilar
Yeah I'm still having problems.  Could someone with a working ATI vid card send me their xorg please?  The following are the results of cat /proc/cpuinfo and /sbin/lspci Thanks for the help. cat /proc/cpuinfo processor   : 0 vendor_id   : GenuineIntel cpu family  : 15 model 

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-18 Thread Anthony Vito
> > > > Why are you using a SMP kernel? I've never used a Dual Core processor, but > > I'm guessing that even then you'd probably be better off with a standard > > (optimized) kernel. > > I disagree. Its hard for me to imagine any realworld situation > where a smp kernel on a hyperthreaded cpu wou

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-18 Thread Brian Foddy
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Marius Schrecker wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 17:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had myth setup on a XP2100 processor system and everything worked quite well.  Now that I have upgraded to a new computer with a P4 3.2Ghzprocessor, during live TV, mythfrontend actually

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-18 Thread Aaron Aguilar
I can't remember the motherboards off the top of my head.  The XP2100 is an Asus something, and the P4 is from Dell, I can check when I get home.  Steve--  I have the standard xorg.conf that came with the fglrx driver.  Is there a flag I need to add?  Marius-- This is the default kernel that li

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-18 Thread Marius Schrecker
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 17:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I had myth setup on a XP2100 processor system and everything worked >> quite >> well.  Now that I have upgraded to a new computer with a P4 >> 3.2Ghzprocessor, during live TV, mythfrontend actually uses more of my >> CPU. >> Sometime

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-18 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:33, James C. Dastrup wrote: > >>AMD XP2100 proc > >>Nvidia FX5200 > >>Fedora Core 3 > >>2.6.10 kernel > >>Hauppauge PVR250 > >> > >>P4 3.2Ghz proc > >>ATI X300 > >>Fedora Core 4 > >>2.6.14-SMP kernel > >>Hauppauge PVR250 > > > >Where you using the Nvidia drivers for

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-18 Thread belcampo
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 17:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had myth setup on a XP2100 processor system and everything worked quite > well.  Now that I have upgraded to a new computer with a P4 > 3.2Ghzprocessor, during live TV, mythfrontend actually uses more of my > CPU. > Sometimes up to 99

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-18 Thread James C. Dastrup
>>AMD XP2100 proc >>Nvidia FX5200 >>Fedora Core 3 >>2.6.10 kernel >>Hauppauge PVR250 >> >>P4 3.2Ghz proc >>ATI X300 >>Fedora Core 4 >>2.6.14-SMP kernel >>Hauppauge PVR250 >> >Where you using the Nvidia drivers for the XP2100? I would bet the driver >off-loaded >some of the playback to the vide

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-18 Thread Jeff volckaert
AMD XP2100 procNvidia FX5200Fedora Core 32.6.10 kernelHauppauge PVR250P4 3.2Ghz procATI X300 Fedora Core 42.6.14-SMP kernelHauppauge PVR250 Where you using the Nvidia drivers for the XP2100?  I would bet the driver off-loaded some of the playback to the video card.  I would try the FX5200 in the

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-18 Thread Adam Propeck
What motherboards in each system?On 1/18/06, Aaron Aguilar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had myth setup on a XP2100 processor system and everything worked quite well.  Now that I have upgraded to a new computer with a P4 3.2Ghz processor, during live TV, mythfrontend actually uses more of my CPU.  S

[mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-18 Thread Aaron Aguilar
I had myth setup on a XP2100 processor system and everything worked quite well.  Now that I have upgraded to a new computer with a P4 3.2Ghz processor, during live TV, mythfrontend actually uses more of my CPU.  Sometimes up to 99%.  When this happens I get a prebuffering pause and the video kind o