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

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Thanks for the idea. I tried ffmpeg but had the same problem.

I'm trying to go back to xorg-server 1.3 but emerge is giving me fits!
Just my luck!

Thanks,
MArk