[mythtv-users] Possible help for those experiencing "blue screen"
during playback
Michael J. Lynch
mlynch at gcom.com
Tue May 31 14:06:28 UTC 2005
I use an old 733Mhz PIII machine with onboard Intel video as a
frontend. The machine is loaded with FC2 and I build Myth for
it from CVS. This past weekend I decided to do a "dist-upgrade"
on the machine just to get all of the system goop updated.
The upgrade downloaded and installed ~110 packages. After a
reboot, I fired up myth and attempted to watch a recording. All
I got was sound and a "blue screen". So I tried to watch a video.
Mplayer fired up for a second or two then exited. Then I
remembered before the upgrade, I was running version xorgs 6.8.0
version of X that I had compiled from source.
When I upgraded the machine, xorg version 6.7.0 of x was downloaded
and installed. I re-compiled and installed version 6.8.0 and the
"blue screen" problem went away.
This problem does NOT occur with XFREE's distribution of X. I hope
this information will be of some use to anyone experiencing the
"blue screen" problem. There are lots of things that can cause
this but here is a solution to at least one of the problems.
--
Michael J. Lynch
What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown
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