[mythtv] Graphics problems and crashing mythfrontend

Robert McNamara robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
Fri Aug 20 14:09:57 UTC 2010


On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Timm <tjburns at charter.net> wrote:

> I recently started having a problem with the mythtv display.  I would have
> lines of white dots, or sometimes black dots, screens repainting very slowly
> and corner to corner like a video wipe, and freezing or crashing.  I ran it
> under gnome for awhile, but the crashes produced no helpful info.  I started
> running it under icewm and started seeing segmentation faults on crashes.
>
> This system has been up for about 2 years, although I just replaced the
> power supply about 2 weeks ago after the old one died.
>
> I got on the web site and did  a dgb output for mythfrontend per the
> instructions.  The output is below.  If this is not a problem with myth, I
> would appreciate any help on where to start looking.
>
>
Timm,

You probably want to ask this question on the mythtv-users list.  A casual
perusal of this backtrace suggests that you may either have a graphics
driver problem, or a graphics hardware problem.

Robert
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