On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?) > > Yeah, it seems mesa-progs isn't installed which explains the lack of glxgears. I guess that was jsut included by default with the old server.
I do note that while I have xorg-x11-7.4 installed, I only have mesa-7.3-r1, not 7.4. Are those intended to match up 1 for 1? Probably doesn't matter... Thanks, Mark
