The Weather Setup screen (Utilities / Setup; Setup; Info Center Settings; Weather Settings) is unusably slow on the GUI on my backend server.
Steps to reproduce: Go into that menu on my machine and then get stuck there.
Details:
All other menus (and I've walked them all) are fine to adequate. Weather Setup takes *minutes* to act on *any* keystroke (CTRL-ALT-F1 doesn't even work) and 'top' from an SSH session shows Xorg with 99% CPU. As soon as I'm out of Weather Setup, CPU goes back to 0. It's 10-65% during general menu surfing, 81% during live SD TV, 30% in program guide, but 99% in Weather Setup.
I am using the stock ATI drivers as I'm running this backend on a Dell PE-650 server (see lspci) and I don't see other drivers on Dell's site. I am also now out of PCI slots with the tuner and NIC, so "get a real card" is not an option. Use a different frontend GUI might be an option if I could get one to work. Also FYI this machine is running through a very old hardware KVM.
Having said all of that SD TV playback works fine, as does general menu surfing and all other configuration (see http://www.jpsdomain.org/jp/mythtv.txt for my raw diary of same and more details than you could possibly want). Ironically I had zero problems like this in a previous VMware test machine, everything was very snappy. And that is using the same KVM and monitor (analog Dell 2005FPW).
If I could just get it set, I could live with that menu's slowness since I won't need it again. (As noted, this all worked just fine under VMware, same monitor and KVM, different server hardware, different video card.) I tried poking the values I grabbed from a MySQL dump on the VM into a test instance of Mythbuntu, but that doesn't seem to have worked:
[mythtvuser@mythtv-be-01:T0:L1:C76:J0:2007-09-29_02:51:25_EDT]
/home/mythtvuser$ mysql -u mythtv -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 92
Server version: 5.0.45-Debian_1ubuntu2-log Debian etch distribution
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql> use mythconverg
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Database changed
mysql> INSERT INTO `settings` (`value`, `data`, `hostname`) VALUES ('locale','USPA0311','mythtv-be-01'),('SIUnits','NO','mythtv-be-01'),('WeatherAggressiveLvl','8','mythtv-be-01');
Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.01 sec)
Records: 3 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
mysql> quit
Bye
# ATI vid, Haupauge PVR-500 tuner
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Broadcom GCNB-LE Host Bridge (rev 32)
00:00.1 Host bridge: Broadcom GCNB-LE Host Bridge
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor Unknown device 8140
>> 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02)
00:0f.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CSB6 South Bridge (rev a0)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: Broadcom CSB6 RAID/IDE Controller (rev a0)
00:0f.3 ISA bridge: Broadcom GCLE-2 Host Bridge
00:10.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CIOB-E I/O Bridge with Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
00:10.2 Host bridge: Broadcom CIOB-E I/O Bridge with Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
>> 01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>> 01:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0c)
Oh, I forgot, I did and apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, then rebooted today before trying this again = no change.