Well so after reading this, the initial big report is indeed invalid. I would still like to narrow down why ubuntu is more suceptible to these types of prebuffering issues in the first place. Could you post you compilation flags? That's as good a place as any to start. Also, I am assuming same window manager and all right?
On 07/18/2008, Vanessa Ezekowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well after much finagling I was able to get a fresh Gentoo 2008.0 > install onto my disk alongside Ubuntu. Using the nVidia driver supplied > by the repository (same version as in Ubuntu), along with my custom > kernel and the v4l-dvb repository. > > I was able to get around the audio write errors above by explicitly > setting my audio device in Mythtv to /dev/dsp and making sure KDE/aRTS > was set to release the sound card after a few seconds. Same setting on > both distros. > > However, the stream of "prebuffering pause" messages still persists only > under Ubuntu - the Gentoo side seemed more or less devoid of these > messages and the video was as smooth as I normally expected it to be. > Any amount of activity (such as a window gaining or losing focus) here > on the Ubuntu side will set off a stream of those messages, the video > and audio still get a little choppy, and if it gets too severe, > mythfrontend segfaults. I might be able to avoid this by enabling > realtime priority, but the last time I did that, it caused a hard lock. > > It seems that the XvMC multi-core crash exists on Gentoo as well (odd, I > could have sworn I used it before). I guess that technically makes this > bug report invalid. > > -- > Segfault on XvMC + SMP (if two or more cores are enabled) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249203 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of MythTV > Ubuntu Maintainers, which is subscribed to mythtv in ubuntu. > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Mario Limonciello [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Segfault on XvMC + SMP (if two or more cores are enabled) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249203 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
