[mythtv-users] VIA XvMCvld

[Stephen Dolan]

> Thanks a lot for your efforts to help me, but I havn't seen any problem with X
> itself, that means if I start a normal X session with window manager and so
> on I have the full screen, only if I start mythfrontend with xinit and
> XvMCvld enabled I get this problem, also just after the start of the X server
> I have the full screen with it's typical grey background, but when
> mythfrontend is starting up it's only the top half.
> 
Its possible that you could have dodgy kernel modules and still have a
functioning X server. Can you try running glxgears or glxinfo to find
out if DRM is working properly. If it is, then you should be getting
around 500fps using glxgears.