[mythtv-users] 0.21 Not Viewable on VIA EPIA M10K (revisited)

[Chris Rouch]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Chris Rouch wrote:
>  > When 0.21 first came out there was a thread with the above subject,
>  > but which stopped on march 12th with no obvious solution.
>  >
>  > I've just upgraded to 0.21 and am seeing the same problem on my M10K,
>  > i.e. whenever I exit from the internal player mythfrontend segfaults.
>  >
>  > I've tried various playback profiles (CPU-, slim and a custom one)
>  > with the same results. I've tried rolling back the Mesa rpms, but
>  > again it makes no difference.
>  >
>  > My system is
>  >
>  > Fedora 8 (up to date as of last Friday)
>  > myth 0.21 from atrpms (0.21-187)
>  >
>  > Did anyone find a solution for this?
>
>  As has been mentioned, MiniMyth is now working on the VIA EPIA
>  motherboards. However, there were a few things that I needed to do in
>  order to get MiniMyth working on these boards with MythTV 0.21.
>
>  As mentioned, the patch from <http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4792> is
>  needed. This causes myth to fall back to xv rather than opengl when xvmc
>  cannot be used to play back a particular video format. However, since
>  your problem happens when exiting the internal player, this may not be
>  your problem.
>
>  In addition, the xorg-server 1.3 needs the following patch in order to
>  stop the EPG from crashing on exit:
>  <http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=commit;h=649e7f82d8d4333443493056b81eb20d6cf022bc>.
>  I believe the FC8 contains the patch.
>
>  Finally, Mesa 7.0.x needs the following patch in order to prevent
>  crashing when exiting recorded television as well as other crashes:
>  <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13541>. I do not believe
>  that FC8 contains the patch. If it does not, the may be able to work
>  around the problem by deleting unichrome_dri.so. However, if you do
>  this, then you can forget about using opengl for anything because it
>  will not longer be accelerated.
>

Thanks for all the replies. I gave the newest minimyth a whirl last
night and it Just Worked - after some straightforward configuration
anyway.

I looked at minimyth a couple of years ago when I bough the M10K, but
gave up because I couldn't work out how to use it. They've obviously
done a lot of work on it in the meantime, particularly to the online
documentation.

I suspect my original problem was caused by the Mesa issue mentioned
by Paul Bender, but I no longer have any pressing need to try to fix
it.

Regards,

Chris