[mythtv-users] Provo with mythtv-0.21 and Hardy

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Matthew Asplund <mattasplund at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an old Compaq P3 system that has been running Dapper and myth happily
> for two years, using a PVR-150 tuner card.  I am preparing to go HD (I
> ordered an HDHomeRun, and build a new BE/FE) so I decided to upgrade to
> Hardy and myth 0.21.  I saved the database, installed Hardy (on a second
> disk, so that I can always go back, it help with the WAF), copied the
> recordings and restored the database.  I can play all of my old recordings,
> but when I try to run live TV, I get an error
> "X Error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) 11
>   Major opcode: 140
>   Minor opcode 19
>   Resource id: 0x0"
> and it plays sound, but only a blue screen.

This sounds like an Xv error, with the video card having insufficient
memory to display the size video you want. Does it happen in mplayer
too? Will mplayer play with -vo x11 but not with -vo xv? (-vo
specifies the Video Out method)

If that is the problem then the remedy seems to vary from unfixable to
various fiddling in xorg.conf, depending what video chipset/driver you
use.  I tried to help a friend in a local LUG with this recently and
ran against a brick wall on his chipset (sis, laptop).