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

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> are you sure it's the latest X>? Maybe the intel driver? Or a combo
>> between the two?
>> Have you tried the newest X on a system that does not have Intel driver?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brad Fuller
>
> Newer X running on my AMD64 system with the radeon driver has no
> problems. The only system that has a problem for me is 32-bit running
> xorg-server-1.5 with the Intel driver. Unfortunately even trying to
> downgrade to the previous version of X didn't fix the problem so
> something is very messed up at this point. ne other individual on the
> Gentoo lists had exactly the same problem. Intel driver, X crashing.
> He updated mesa and that fixed it for him, but that didn't work for
> me.
>
> Problem with the new xorg-server under Gentoo is that the default is
> to run with no xorg.conf file and then let hald and dbus figure out
> what to do. This leaves me questioning even what mode the screen is
> running in. I found some similar threads where it turned out the video
> app wasn't able to run at the screen resolution and crashed X with the
> same sort of messages I'm getting. I need to figure out how to best
> run X without all this automatic setup junk so I can be more confident
> of what's going on.
>
> Unfortunately this is my only PC near a TV so it's holding up my HDHR
> work where I look at channels on TV to figure out what channels match.
>
> - Mark
>

Non-xv profiles in mplayer do not crash. xv usage causes it.

I'm not comfortable yet with how to change Myth to use OpenGL but
possibly that will fix Myth in the short term if I Can't figure out
what is causing this xv problem.

BTW - I don't care if you top post or not. I just appreciate the help!

- Mark