[mythtv-users] xorg-server-1.5 & Intel driver causing mythfrontend to segfault

Cory H coryhoneyman at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 14 23:41:52 UTC 2009


>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Mark Knecht  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>   This isn't a Myth problem, or I don't think it is at this time.
>>> However after updating xorg-x11 to the newest stable version on Gentoo
>>> a certain machine here then anytime I try to watch Live TV or playback
>>> a recorded program mythfrontend segfault and crashes X completely
>>> dumping me back to the gdm login screen. Looking at Xorg.0.log.old
>>> shows the message
>>>
>>> (EE) intel(0): Failed to pin xv buffer
>>>
>>>   Apparently others are seeing this problem with the Intel driver on
>>> other apps such as mplayer.
>>>
>>>   My questions are:
>>>
>>> 1) What 'xv'?
>>>
>>> 2) Can I run mythfrontend without it, even with reduced performance to
>>> test the theory?
>>
>> You could change the video renderer in the MythTV FE playback settings.
>>
>> Maybe also try mplayer and change the video driver there to test?
> 
> Thanks for the idea. I tried ffmpeg but had the same problem.
> 
> I'm trying to go back to xorg-server 1.3 but emerge is giving me fits!
> Just my luck!
> 
> Thanks,
> MArk

 
In the playback settings, the video render will be set to something like xv-blit. Change that to soemthing else (like OpenGL) and see if that works.
 
I think what you changed isn't the right setting.
 
xv is video rendering extension for linux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_video_extension)
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