[mythtv-users] Epia/FC4/Unichrome/Myth woes....

[Jules Gosnell]

so, in a blind leap of faith, I recently trashed my working FC3 system 
and upgraded my Epia to FC4....

Easy, I thought - I've done it all before....

Days later, I'm running out of ideas...

I've been trying to put together a system based on the unichrome server 
at: http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC4/RPMS/

It turns out that (for me) installing anything later than 6.8.2-37 
results in a server that crashes as soon as you open a window on it.

6.8.2-37 itself, gives you a working server, and rebuilding and 
installing the latest kernel and dri kernel-module gives you a system 
that ALMOST does direct rendering (missing symbol from unichrome module).

I went back, patched and rebuilt xorg to include this symbol and finally 
got direct rendering working as root only for glxgears. Even with the 
666 stuff in my xorg.conf, runnning as non-root crashes the glx client 
with a segv.

I tried building xine-lib, but the two SRPMS that I found (one at the 
above url and a later one at livna) both break during their build - 
looking into it...

I have mythtv-suite-0.18.1-55.at installed, so I though I would try that...

Using XvMC version: 1.0
XvMC found and using IDCT surface
2005-09-01 09:57:47.358 Using XV port 240
_xvmc_create_context() returned incorrect data size!
        Expected 30, got 2
Unable to create XvMC Context return status:11 BadAlloc

looks like it starts on the XvMC stuff then bombs out ;-( - I googled 
for this problem and came across someone saying that it indicates a 
version mismatch between the XvMC lib and the Server - but they both 
built from the same xorg SRPM :-(

Has anyone out there got an Epia successfully running FC4 with direct 
rendering for xine and FC4 ? I need dvb-t as well.... If you have, 
please post back and let me know how you did it, I would really 
appreciate it - I NEED my Myth box !!!

Thanks for your time,


Jules

P.S.

maybe i should rebuild Myth - I'll kick a build off...

-- 
"Open Source is a self-assembling organism. You dangle a piece of
string into a super-saturated solution and a whole operating-system
crystallises out around it."

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