--- Marc Williams <marcw(a)onlymooo.com> wrote:
...
If you find your trusty old xawtv suddenly locking up your machine
hard
and you don't know why, I think I found the reason - the new Nvidia
driver.
Xawtv without the new Nvidia drivers works great, as always. Also, the
the new Nvidia driver works fine with everything I run unless I start up
xawtv. Instant lockup. I haven't seen one of these for awhile. Mouse
is frozen in place, no keyboard, nothing. A hard bounce is the only
thing that works.
I'd really like to get both of these guys (xawtv, Nvidia) to play nice
together. Any suggestions?
---
I am quite impressed by latest nvidia drivers - 560FPS for glxgears on a TNT2M64 compared
with any
previous driver(85FPS). So, I tested some of the apps that I ussually run, including xawtv
and
xmms (visualizations opengl: freeze xmms if enable-disable-enable; enable or
enable-disable are
OK).
You're right, the combination nvidia-1.0-6106 with xawtv is a killer. For xawtv, if
you use
"-remote" which disables overlay mode, it should work. I also use -noxv which
reduces the procesor
use even further. It's not perfect, but it works for me. My line now is: xawtv -c
/dev/video0
-remote -noxv .
Hope it will work for you too,
Ioan
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