[mythtv-users] How to make a good bug report?

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Fri Jul 9 21:52:21 EDT 2004


John Goerzen wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:30:52PM -0700, Bruce Markey wrote:
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>>However, Isaac's first closure will probably turn out to be more
>>correct as INVALID. There is no code in the mythtv source base
>>that tells everyone's EPG to flicker. The problem is almost surely
>>a problem with the video card, it's driver, X11, window manager,
>>Qt installation, poor signal quality, bitrate that overruns the
>>system capacities, etc. It may be a bug with another project but
>>more likely is a support question for another project or product
>>and is not a bug in myth code.
>>    
>>
>
>Most of these can be trivially ruled out given the information I
>reported, especially given that it exists on multiple machines and
>relates to the display of the program guide, not the display of video,
>which works fine.  Also, a rather speedy Athlon64 displays the problem
>as well, while a far slower laptop does not.
>  
>

Except the the multiple machines were all set up by the same person, and 
probably run similar configs, and software...






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