[mythtv-users] 0.21 Not Viewable on VIA EPIA M10K (revisited)

[Paul Bender]

Chris Rouch wrote:
> When 0.21 first came out there was a thread with the above subject,
> but which stopped on march 12th with no obvious solution.
> 
> I've just upgraded to 0.21 and am seeing the same problem on my M10K,
> i.e. whenever I exit from the internal player mythfrontend segfaults.
> 
> I've tried various playback profiles (CPU-, slim and a custom one)
> with the same results. I've tried rolling back the Mesa rpms, but
> again it makes no difference.
> 
> My system is
> 
> Fedora 8 (up to date as of last Friday)
> myth 0.21 from atrpms (0.21-187)
> 
> Did anyone find a solution for this?

As has been mentioned, MiniMyth is now working on the VIA EPIA
motherboards. However, there were a few things that I needed to do in
order to get MiniMyth working on these boards with MythTV 0.21.

As mentioned, the patch from <http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4792> is
needed. This causes myth to fall back to xv rather than opengl when xvmc 
cannot be used to play back a particular video format. However, since 
your problem happens when exiting the internal player, this may not be 
your problem.

In addition, the xorg-server 1.3 needs the following patch in order to 
stop the EPG from crashing on exit: 
<http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=commit;h=649e7f82d8d4333443493056b81eb20d6cf022bc>. 
I believe the FC8 contains the patch.

Finally, Mesa 7.0.x needs the following patch in order to prevent 
crashing when exiting recorded television as well as other crashes: 
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13541>. I do not believe 
that FC8 contains the patch. If it does not, the may be able to work 
around the problem by deleting unichrome_dri.so. However, if you do 
this, then you can forget about using opengl for anything because it 
will not longer be accelerated.