On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Could it be you don't have mesa-progs installed? (Or perhaps even mesa itself?)
