On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > Playing videos with mplayer produces an output of > > ************************************************ > **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! **** > ************************************************ > > , diplaying of dvb-t broadcasts are often interrupted (screen freezes, > audio continues) or otherwise disturbed (colored blocks, "flashes" > etc.) > > The CPU meter of gkrellm shows a high overall CPU load with a greater > part of load of system processes. > > Another indication of something, which is going wrong here is, that blender > goes into the digital nirwana when rendering sometimes, whith a 100% > system load. > > I suspect the opengl/graphic interface of my PC is somehow screwed up. > I am using (32bit system): > > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ > on a ASUS AV8 mainboard (VIA chipset) > nVidia Corporation GeForce 7600 GT (rev a2) graphics adapter (AGP) > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82 USE="acpi gtk -custom-cflags (-multilib) > > Everything else not graphic/opengl related works fine and as fast as > one could expect from a PC like that. > > I installed nvidia drivers vi aemerge which automagically eselects the > opengl interface. > > I attached the latest xorg.log for information purposes. > > It works for a couple of time...and then (time unknown) problems > arises as described. > > How can I pinpoint the problem and how can I fix it? > > Kind regards, > Meino Cramer
are you using composite? if yes, don't. Or install the latest nvidia driver.