On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This started as part of Michael's thread about Myth crashing. >> mythfrontend is segfaulting for me also, but my problem has spread to >> pretty much any application that tries to display video - mplayer, >> xine and Myth all crash with similar errors. Only xine doesn't crash X >> completely and leaves behind anything in terms of clues. > > It looks like maybe a problem with xv overlays. You can try using a > different output driver than xv. Also, try adding AccelMethod to your > device section in xorg.conf if you don't have it: > > Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" > > If that doesn't help, maybe try EXA instead of XAA. > > Also, if you're using anything like compiz of KDE4 desktop effects, > try turning it off. > >
OK, I tried XAA and EXA. I see evidence in Xorg.0.log that they are each recognized but both ways I'm still crashing X. This is very disappointing, but at least I can run mplayer on this machine if I remember to set the decoder type. Our emails are crossing in the ether. I'm building driconf now and will see what I can do with that. I'm not sure what to try. driconf doesn't seem very happy. It cannot find glxinfo, and I just found out that glxgears is no longer on the system. Did that change with xorg-7.4 or do I need to re-emerge something? I cannot remember. Anyway, I'll keep plugging away at this. Thanks for the idea on driconf. Cheers, Mark
