[mythtv-users] Kernel 2.6.29.1 + 180.* = DISASTER

[Yan Seiner]

Dale Pontius wrote:
> Yan Seiner wrote:
>> OK, so  I'm living on the bleeding edge....  I upgraded my system to 
>> 2.6.29.1, and the only nvidia drivers that compile are 18?.*.   But 
>> all those drivers give me the following error on running myth:
>>
>> X Error: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) 143
>>  Major opcode:  142
>>  Minor opcode:  6
>>  Resource id:  0x28000c2
>> X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
>>  Major opcode:  56
>>  Minor opcode:  0
>>  Resource id:  0x0
>>
>> These errors appear in rapid sequence, many a second.
>>
>> And the myth screen stays black.   I can work through the menus "by 
>> feel" and live TV, mythmusic, etc. start, but the screen is black.
>>
>> Is anyone else running into this?  I've googled all over the place 
>> and it appears to be some sort of conflict with GL libs and/or a bug 
>> in qt.
>>
>> Anyone shed light on this?
>>
>> I've tried mythfrontend -O ThemePainter=opengl and mythfrontend -O 
>> ThemePainter=qt
>>
>> with opengl I get the main menus but the screen goes black when I 
>> select anything like Watch Recordings.
>>
>> It's definitely a rendering problem.....
>>
>> I'm running 0.21-fixes from quite a while ago.
>>
>> ?????
>>
>> I don't mind trying 0.22 if it's out / close to done....  But before 
>> I go that painful route I'd like to get an idea if that will fix the 
>> problem.
>>
>> --Yan
>>
> I have 2 Myth frontend systems that I've brought up to 2.6.29, and had 
> problems with both.  One is running nvidia 180.* drivers, but I think 
> I that was a problem with the forcedeth networking drivers which I 
> cleared up with the NAPI option.  I've still got compositing turned 
> off, but I'm not sure that that's a problem.  It's running QT 
> rendering.  Also on this system, I'm unable to rebuild LIRC for the 
> lirc_imon driver.
>
> The other system has an older card, so is running the nvidia 173.* 
> drivers.  On that system I get 3.5 fps with compositing turned off, 
> and 1.5 fps with it turned on.  (Obviously something's wrong)  As for 
> Myth, I forget the theme, but I believe it's GL rendering, and it 
> looks like it's having unusably bad transparency problems.  The menus 
> are faded, and I can't see the highlighting.  It's also not as 
> intuitively usable as the G.A.N.T., so I can't watch a recording by 
> feel, just get out.  I haven't yet tried switching the theme under 
> 2.6.28-r4, so I either try the QT rendering or G.A.N.T. theme and work 
> by feel.
Well, converting to
mythbackend version: trunk [20306] www.mythtv.org
 
and using the newer themes seems to have helped....

I'm up and running.

I still get gobs of X errors though, so all is not well but liveTV and 
recordings are working.

:-)

--Yan

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