[mythtv-users] Screen corruption with fglrx X driver

Xaero kknull0 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 22:43:16 UTC 2008


lol
made a reboot and and the problem return with 8.8

2008/8/26 Owen Townend <owen.townend at gmail.com>

> 2008/8/26 kanetse at gmail.com <kane.tse at gmail.com>:
> >> David Gee wrote:
> >>> I've done a little more investigating and tried tweaking some settings,
> >>> and here are the various problems I've identified; I would appreciate
> >>> any input anyone can give me.
> >>>
> >>> 1. Mythfrontend menus: if I run mythfrontend using the --geometry
> >>> parameter, the menus always display correctly. If I omit the --geometry
> >>> parameter so that mythfrontend runs full-screen, then the output on the
> >>> screen gets corrupted (although a screenshot shows the menu drawn
> >>> correctly). I have found that if I change the paint method from Qt to
> >>> OpenGL, the actual menus themselves then display correctly, although
> the
> >>> initial loading screen with the progress bar still appears corrupted.
> >>>
> >>> 2. Settings screens: If I have the OpenGL paint method enabled (to fix
> >>> the screen corruption as described above), none of the settings screens
> >>> work - the screen doesn't change and doesn't respond to key presses,
> >>> although pressing Escape enough times usually regains control of the
> >>> menus. However, this is only happens in full-screen mode: running
> >>> mythfrontend with a --geometry parameter gets around this problem. If I
> >>> am using the Qt paint method, this menu works all the time (however
> it's
> >>> useless in full-screen mode because of the aforementioned screen
> >>> corruption in full-screen mode without OpenGL).
> >>>
> >>> 3. Watching TV: generally works; however, mythfrontend frequently
> >>> segfaults while watching TV. Changing channels is also problematic:
> most
> >>> of the time, this causes the TV output for the newly changed channel to
> >>> be garbled. However, pressing escape to get back to the main menu and
> >>> then going back to watching TV results in that channel being displayed
> >>> perfectly. See http://www.allpowerfuldave.com/mythtv1.png,
> >>> http://www.allpowerfuldave.com/mythtv2.png and
> >>> http://www.allpowerfuldave.com/mythtv3.png for examples of the garbled
> >>> output after changing channels. The output appears to differ depending
> >>> on whether the broadcast is SD or HD.
> >>>
> >
> > Just wanted to chime in on this very old thread, I'm seeing exactly
> > the same problems as described above.  Anyone know of any solutions
> > yet?  I'm ready to give up and plug in an older GeForce 6600 into the
> > PCI-E slot.
> >
> > My setup:
> >
> > GA-MA78GM-S2H (AMD 780G)
> > CentOS 5.2
> > fglrx
> > Connected via DVI
> >
> > I'm hoping that eventually a new driver from ATi will be released that
> > fixes this problem... but for now, I'll switch over to the PCI-E card.
> >
> > Thanks!
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>
> Hey,
> I have the same motherboard in my frontend but am using Ubuntu 8.04.
> Using ATI's 8.7 drivers I have this exact problem, but I didn't have
> it using 8-3 or 8-6. I still have curruption on channel changes
> between resolutions (SD to HD and back) but escaping back to the menu
> and going back to the tv fixes it.
> I had tried 8-7 to fix the above issue but rolled back because it
> introduced more problems than it fixed for me.
> I haven't tried 8-8 yet, hoping though.
>
> cheers,
> Owen.
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