[mythtv-users] xorg-server-1.5 & Intel driver causing mythfrontend to segfault

[Brad Fuller]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   This isn't a Myth problem, or I don't think it is at this time.
> However after updating xorg-x11 to the newest stable version on Gentoo
> a certain machine here then anytime I try to watch Live TV or playback
> a recorded program mythfrontend segfault and crashes X completely
> dumping me back to the gdm login screen. Looking at Xorg.0.log.old
> shows the message
>
> (EE) intel(0): Failed to pin xv buffer
>
>   Apparently others are seeing this problem with the Intel driver on
> other apps such as mplayer.
>
>   My questions are:
>
> 1) What 'xv'?
>
> 2) Can I run mythfrontend without it, even with reduced performance to
> test the theory?

You could change the video renderer in the MythTV FE playback settings.

Maybe also try mplayer and change the video driver there to test?