[mythtv-users] Problems running mythtv-setup on backend with Intel 82865G

[Tom Dexter]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Tom Dexter<digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Tom Dexter<digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been reading nightmarish accounts of problems getting DRI working
>> with the 865G chipsets under xorg 1.5.3, however I've never even used
>> DRI on that machine before and still don't have it in my kernel at
>> all.  What's really confusing me is that glxinfo says "Direct
>> Rendering: yes" even though no drm modules are even loaded...that
>> really seems off.  I've tried everything I can find to force disable
>> DRI in xorg.conf, but glxinfo _still_ says direct rendering is
>> enabled...any idea what that's all about?  I have no idea if that has
>> anything to do with is anyway.
>>
>
> Wow...what do you know.  I was on the right track with the above.
>
> If I do:
>
> export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
>
> ...before startx the problem goes away and mythtv-setup runs just fine.
>

I've also noticed that with that environment variable set on the
backend, all the ssh/X11Forwarding situations I described in the first
post are able to run mythtv-setup just fine.  That leads me to believe
that this may be partly/mainly a bug in the X11 libraries running on
the backend, as none of those situations involve the backend
xorg-server or it's Intel video.  Ugly stuff for sure.

Tom