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

[Larry Finger]

A. It gets hard to follow the thread.

Q. What is wrong with top posting?

Josh White wrote:
> could someone please define what top posting is?
> 
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com
> <mailto:markknecht at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Brad Fuller
>     <bradallenfuller at gmail.com <mailto:bradallenfuller at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > are you sure it's the latest X>? Maybe the intel driver? Or a combo
>     > between the two?
>     > Have you tried the newest X on a system that does not have Intel
>     driver?
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > --
>     > Brad Fuller
> 
>     Newer X running on my AMD64 system with the radeon driver has no
>     problems. The only system that has a problem for me is 32-bit running
>     xorg-server-1.5 with the Intel driver. Unfortunately even trying to
>     downgrade to the previous version of X didn't fix the problem so
>     something is very messed up at this point. ne other individual on the
>     Gentoo lists had exactly the same problem. Intel driver, X crashing.
>     He updated mesa and that fixed it for him, but that didn't work for
>     me.
> 
>     Problem with the new xorg-server under Gentoo is that the default is
>     to run with no xorg.conf file and then let hald and dbus figure out
>     what to do. This leaves me questioning even what mode the screen is
>     running in. I found some similar threads where it turned out the video
>     app wasn't able to run at the screen resolution and crashed X with the
>     same sort of messages I'm getting. I need to figure out how to best
>     run X without all this automatic setup junk so I can be more confident
>     of what's going on.
> 
>     Unfortunately this is my only PC near a TV so it's holding up my HDHR
>     work where I look at channels on TV to figure out what channels match.
> 
>     - Mark
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