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On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 18:19 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I'm not understanding why your system isn't finding the right video |
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> driver. It appears hal wants you to run the i915 driver. Is the i915 |
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> driver in memory? (lsmod|grep i915) |
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camille ~ # lsmod|grep i915 |
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i915 26624 1 |
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drm 54168 2 i915 |
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> Is it on your system? On the 32-bit machine they are in /usr/lib/dri. |
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> Your Xorg.0.log file says they aren't there. Why not? |
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camille ~ # ls -al /usr/lib/dri |
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total 2120 |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 11 09:23 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 175 root root 110592 Apr 14 23:56 .. |
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2047960 Apr 12 03:17 swrast_dri.so |
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> If they really aren't there then you need to build them. They are |
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> provided byxf86-video-intel. I don't have them on this AMD64 machine |
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> but note that if I wanted to add them then they drag in XvMC which I |
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> am suspecting is causing the segfault crash on my wife's 32-bit Intel |
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> based machine: |
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> lightning mythtv # emerge -pv1 xf86-video-intel |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-xvmc-0.1 0 kB |
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> [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXvMC-1.0.4 USE="-debug" 220 kB |
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> [ebuild N ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.6.3-r1 USE="dri -debug" 772 kB |
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> Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 992 kB |
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> lightning mythtv # |
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camille ~ # emerge -pv xf86-video-intel |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.6.3-r1 USE="dri -debug" |
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0 kB |
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Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB |
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> I am curious as to whether this matters. xvmc is one of the rendering |
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> technologies and is pretty much default with Myth. On my wife's |
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> machine neither implementation is selected. Possibly that's part of |
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> the problem on her machine. I'll have to play with that a bit: |
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> dragonfly ~ # eselect xvmc list |
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> Available XvMC implementations ( * is current ): |
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> [1] xorg-x11 |
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> [2] intel |
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> dragonfly ~ # |
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Could this be the problem? None of them seem to be selected: |
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camille ~ # eselect xvmc list |
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Available XvMC implementations ( * is current ): |
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[1] xorg-x11 |
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[2] openchrome |
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[3] openchrome-pro |
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[4] intel |
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> I don't know what other clues to give you. I'm going back to xorg-1.3 |
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> as we speak to see if I can get her machine working again. I'll let |
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> you know how it goes. |
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> - Mark |
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