[mythtv] Blue screen in playback (SVN 7442)

Glen Dragon gad at jetcom.org
Thu Oct 13 17:05:40 UTC 2005


Quoting Jeremy Muhlich <jmuhlich at bitflood.org>:

> That blue is the xv color key, on which the driver normally overlays the
> video.  Once or twice I've done something to hose the nvidia driver such
> that it won't render video and I get the same blue screen, but no errors
> are emitted.  Rebooting fixed it.  If you can fully shut down X and
> unload/reload the kernel module that might work too.
>
>
> -- Jeremy
>
>
> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 20:32 -0400, gregturn at mindspring.com wrote:
>> I am getting a blue screen I do playback. The sound is fine. This
>> started happening over the weekend. I have AMD 64, and mythtv is
>> currently at SVN 7442. It is still able to record shows. While
>> checking out the shows, the thumbnail previews look fine. It is only
>> in full screen playback that I get a solid blue screen.
>>
>> I compiled it with the debug flag, and captured -v playback for both
>> backend and frontend. Anybody see any issues here?
>>
>> The only observance I have, is that this weekend I had to reboot my
>> mythtv machine, and I found that nVidia was crashing my X server. I
>> had to comment out the GLX module. I also compiled a patch into lirc
>> kernel modules to support kernel 2.6.13 (but that part doesn't quite
>> work). I'm not sure if either of these issues would affect MythTV on
>> playback.
>

I also had this problem last night.  Restarting X did the trick.



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