[mythtv-users] Issues with mythfrontend

Chris Poole chris at chrispoole.com
Sun Jul 5 19:01:55 UTC 2009


Thanks for the help.

I've set option "no_dri" "yes" in the device section of xorg.conf, but get a
black screen with a red rectangle in the middle of the screen, instead of
grey gradients and curves.

This is what mythfrontend.log then shows:

Starting mythfrontend.real..
2009-07-05 19:54:59.095 New DB connection, total: 2
2009-07-05 19:54:59.102 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2009-07-05 19:54:59.103 mythfrontend version: 0.21.20080304-1 www.mythtv.org
2009-07-05 19:54:59.104 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2009-07-05 19:55:01.006 No theme dir: /home/chris/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T
2009-07-05 19:55:01.007 Primary screen 0.
2009-07-05 19:55:01.007 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
2009-07-05 19:55:01.007 No theme dir: /home/chris/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T
2009-07-05 19:55:01.008 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T)
2009-07-05 19:55:01.119 Using the Qt painter
2009-07-05 19:55:01.119 JoystickMenuClient Error: Joystick disabled - Failed
to read /home/chris/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
2009-07-05 19:55:01.127 lirc init success using configuration file:
/home/chris/.lircrc

X Error: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) 158
  Major opcode:  148
  Minor opcode:  6
  Resource id:  0x2c0001e
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Major opcode:  56
  Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x0
X Error: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) 158
  Major opcode:  148
  Minor opcode:  5
  Resource id:  0x2c0001e
X Error: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) 158
  Major opcode:  148
  Minor opcode:  6
  Resource id:  0x2c0001e
X Error: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) 158

(Lots and lots of that.)

I should note that I'm using a previous model Mac mini, with the intel
driver. It works fine when connected to my monitor, just seems to have
issues when connected to TV via composite.

Thanks,
Chris

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:

> To me, the 'get fences failed' error message indicates that you are having
> drm/dri issues, likely with the Intel driver's GEM support. Is suspect a
> mismatch between the kernel drm module's, libdrm and Mesa.
>
> One thing you might try is using xorg.conf to disable dri.
>
> Chris Poole wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the quick reply.
>>
>> This is what mythfrontend.log says:
>>
>> Starting mythfrontend.real..
>> 2009-07-05 19:22:49.217 New DB connection, total: 2
>> 2009-07-05 19:22:49.217 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>> localhost
>> 2009-07-05 19:22:49.218 mythfrontend version: 0.21.20080304-1
>> www.mythtv.org <http://www.mythtv.org>
>> 2009-07-05 19:22:49.218 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
>> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.244 No theme dir: /home/chris/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T
>> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.245 Primary screen 0.
>> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.245 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
>> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.245 No theme dir: /home/chris/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T
>> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.246 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T)
>> get fences failed: -1
>> param: 6, val: 0
>> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.616 Using the Qt painter
>> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.616 JoystickMenuClient Error: Joystick disabled -
>> Failed to read /home/chris/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
>> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.893 lirc init success using configuration file:
>> /home/chris/.lircrc
>>
>> I searched round and thought deleting ~/.mythtv/themecache or even
>> ~/.mythtv itself might work, but it doesn't.
>>
>> The theme shows, but then immediately freezes as it (I assume) goes to
>> cache the theme images.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org <mailto:
>> beww at beww.org>> wrote:
>>
>>    On Sunday 05 July 2009 11:54:31 Chris Poole wrote:
>>     > Hi guys,
>>     > When I start the frontend it seems to freeze.
>>     >
>>     > Backend (same machine) seems to be ok.
>>     >
>>     > I've looked everywhere for what settings to change or may be
>>     > important, but can't find anything.
>>     >
>>     > If someone could offer some help or pointers I'd really
>>    appreciate it.
>>
>>    What do your logs say?
>>
>>    Can you ssh in and see what the status of things is?
>>
>>    --
>>    Brian Wood
>>    beww at beww.org <mailto:beww at beww.org>
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