Hamish posted <200604062234.11991.hamish@...>, excerpted
below,  on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:34:11 +0100:

> Anyone out there understand why this happens? I think it started
> immediately after I upgraded X last friday from 6.8.2 to 7.0. However
> mplayer, xine etc all still work fine. Including on myth recordings so it
> looks like some sort of interraction between myth & X, except that the
> logs would tend to indicate it's audio based... Ho hum...

I know little about MythTV, but how long ago was your last revdep-rebuild?

If you've not run it in awhile, chances are you upgraded something, maybe
X, maybe something else, to a binary incompatible version, without
rebuilding everything that depended on it.  Normally, that means something
breaks, but in this case, it may simply mean MythTV is falling back to a
very slow unaccelerated compatibility mode.

Note that if you've not run revdep-rebuild in some time, it's likely
you'll have a whole list of stuff that needs rebuilt, and doing so will
take awhile.  It uses the same -p for pretend that emerge does, so use -p
the first time.  It'll do its thing scanning all your binaries and
libraries to figure out what needs rebuilt, which takes awhile, then spit
out a list.  If you like the list, run it again without the -p and let it
get to work (it won't have to recalculate everything, as it will still
have the work files around from the first run).  Or, you can emerge
--oneshot each package on the list, manually.  That's what I usually do.

If you don't have the revdep-rebuild command, it's part of gentoolkit,
which also contains a bunch of other very useful tools.

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