[mythtv-users] Problems running mythtv-setup on backend with Intel 82865G

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/09/2009 05:23 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
>>     
>>> I've been reading nightmarish accounts of problems getting DRI working
>>> with the 865G chipsets under xorg 1.5.3, however I've never even used
>>> DRI on that machine before and still don't have it in my kernel at
>>> all.  What's really confusing me is that glxinfo says "Direct
>>> Rendering: yes" even though no drm modules are even loaded...that
>>> really seems off.  I've tried everything I can find to force disable
>>> DRI in xorg.conf, but glxinfo _still_ says direct rendering is
>>> enabled...any idea what that's all about?  I have no idea if that has
>>> anything to do with is anyway.
>> Wow...what do you know.  I was on the right track with the above.
>>
>> If I do:
>>
>> export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
>>
>> ...before startx the problem goes away and mythtv-setup runs just fine.
>>
>>     
> I've also noticed that with that environment variable set on the
> backend, all the ssh/X11Forwarding situations I described in the first
> post are able to run mythtv-setup just fine.  That leads me to believe
> that this may be partly/mainly a bug in the X11 libraries running on
> the backend, as none of those situations involve the backend
> xorg-server or it's Intel video.  Ugly stuff for sure.

I thought it was drivers.  It's also required for ATI drivers.  I'm 99% 
positive it's not required for NVIDIA drivers.

Mike