[mythtv-users] New XVMC help/troubleshooting

Mike Wood mike at woodsnest.com
Mon Oct 11 23:29:29 UTC 2004


Well, I'm working on the same thing, but with a different problem.  In 
your case, I think you just need to upgrade DRM.  You need version 1.5 
or higher, and according to your dmesg report, you have version 1.3.0.



Jason wrote:

>Hi all, 
>
>  I am trying to get the new xvmc to work and I'm not having any luck.  Not 
>sure if this is too OT.  This is what I have so far:
>
>Distro: Gentoo
>Kernel: 2.4.26 with epia 2 patch applied
>X:  xorg cvs version 6.8.1.99 with X.org_CVS_to_unichrome-xorg-r26.diff 
>applied
>Software:  Myth CVS 10/11
>
>Dmesg reports:
>[drm] Initialized via 1.3.0 20040411 on minor 0: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 
>[Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics
>
>Xorg logs has:
>(II) VIA(0): [XvMC] Initialized XvMC extension.
>
>When I try to watch a program/live tv myth segfaults and I get this in the 
>log:
>2004-10-11 16:00:06 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
>2004-10-11 16:00:06 Audio fragment size: 4096
>Using XvMC version: 1.0
>XvMC found and using VLD surface
>2004-10-11 16:00:06 Using XV port 56
>_xvmc_create_context() returned incorrect data size!
>        Expected 31, got 32
>Unable to create XvMC Context return status:11 BadAlloc
>
>
>If I uncheck the 'use via xvmclvd' option then everything works fine.
>
>So I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts to point me in the right 
>direction, I'm not sure if this is an obvious error or not.  If not I can try 
>to grab a bt and post it.
>
>Thanks for the time,
>Jason
>
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