[Openchrome-users] FC5 with updates and kelkoo build - SOLVED :-)

[Jules Gosnell]

Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> Don't forget to reply to the list.

oops - thanks, Xavier - thought I had, but was just talking to you.

My thanks to everyone on the list - please read the enclosed for an 
explanation of the resolution of this issue.

Jules

> 
> X.
> 
> Jules Gosnell wrote:
> 
>> So, I tried a number of things this evening.
>>
>> 1 of them was fiddling with my BIOS settings...
>>
>> I increased a video memory setting (can't remember the name offhand) 
>> from 32mb to 64mb - all my recordings play happily now.
>>
>> It looks as if recordings with smaller dimensions were playing ok 
>> whilst larger ones were being corrupted. I guess this was due to a 
>> failed alloc somewhere...
>>
>> So, thanks for all the help guys, and sorry to trouble you with this.
>>
>> I now have to go buy a new videocard for the backend box, which gave 
>> up the ghost just after I got the frontend working ! Always the way...
>>
>> Jules
>>
>>
>> Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>>
>>> Jules Gosnell wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The h/w is a 1gz Epia EZRA (1586) with CLE266.
>>>>
>>>> Here's a picture of the problem :
>>>>
>>>> http://www.gosnell.org.uk/tmp/00032.jpg
>>>>
>>>> I have just rebuilt the box with a clean FC5, added the kelkoo repo, 
>>>> done a 'yum update', then added the atrpms repo and done a 'yum 
>>>> install mythtv-suite'.
>>>>
>>>> I rebuilt the kernel-module-via-drm SRPM from kelkoo and installed it.
>>>> Kelkoo's xorg-x11-drv-via was already installed by my upgrade.
>>>>
>>> ...snip...
>>>
>>>> When I enable 'VIA XvMC' in MythTV and play recordings (made from my 
>>>> 2 Hauppauge Nova-Ts) most of them are garbled as the pic above. 
>>>> Disabling XvMC allows them to be rendered correctly using much more 
>>>> cpu.
>>>>
>>> Just to make sure that this is not only related to MythTV, could you 
>>> please test with xine from livna repo (xine -V xxmc file.mpeg) ? Try 
>>> with a regular dvd too, it may come from the recording.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Xavier
>>>
>>
>>
> 


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