[Openchrome-users] Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Hanging on Video Exit via xvmc-vld

[Thomas Hellström]

Paul Bender wrote:

> Sam Davies wrote:
>
>> Hi there
>>
>> I have a EPIA SP13000 which was running FC4 with the RPMs from
>> http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC4/RPMS/ with mythTV using via
>> xvmc-vld mpeg2 decoding, and despite a few glitches, all was fine.
>>
>> I then needed to update X, and did so with yum update xorg-x11\* (with
>> the epia repositories set up as detailed). Although xine still seems
>> to work fine with the mpeg acceleration, mythtv plays video fine with
>> acceleration, however, when you try to exit watching a video, a half
>> blue, half black screen is shown for a couple of seconds. The system
>> then returns to a half-rendered myth screen, but the system seems to
>> have hung.
>>
>> I have tried getting the latest version of mythtv from svn and
>> recompiling, but the same problem occurs.
>>
>> I seem to remember reading about something similar about this on one
>> of the mailing lists a while ago, but I can't seem to find it.
>>
>> My X log doesn't seem register any errors at the point of crashing.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> sam
>>
>> kernel: 2.6.12-1.1447 (with drm module)
>> X: 6.8.99.903-0
>> myth: from svn revision 8525
>
>
> In developing MiniMyth <http://linpvr.org>, I encountered the same 
> thing on the CN400 based motherboards. It appears that the problem 
> started after the big Xv update in the unichrome drivers. As a result, 
> have not upgraded X beyond 6.8.2 and I have not upgraded the unichrome 
> drivers beyond the 20050815 snapshot.
>
To have _any_ chance of helping out with this I would need log from a 
via driver compiled with HAVE_DEBUG set in via_driver.h, that includes 
the crash. Possibly also if there are any errors from the drm module in 
the kernel logs.

/Thomas



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