X Problems In MythTV on Jaunty

[Bon]

Jaunty Alpha 5, MythTV ran with no problems, but since running Dist-Upgrade on Monday 16-03-2008 MythFrontend and Mythtv-Setup are unable to draw. Running on an ATI Radeon X300 using the OpenSource drivers.
The Gnome screen switched focus to where the Myth app (frontend or setup) should be, and one black box outline is drawn, it looks like the box where Myth shows the updating icons box. However after that nothing else happens and the screen is locked. You can alt-tab back into a launch terminal and ctrl-c or kill the Myth app to stop it.

Pages of errors in a terminal relate to this :
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Major opcode: 62
  Minor opcode: 0
  Resource id: 0x3800030
X Error: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) 160
  Major opcode: 149
  Minor opcode: 5
  Resource id: 0x3800031

Running :
Linux MediaCentre 2.6.28-10-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 16 02:49:09 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

mythtv-common:
  Installed: 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

mythtv-frontend:
  Installed: 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

mythtv-backend:
  Installed: 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

xserver-xorg-video-radeon:
  Installed: 1:6.12.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:6.12.0-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:6.12.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Try running in QT mode rather than OpenGL mode. Do problems happen there?

[Bon (ian-bonham)]

I'm using the QT painter by default always have done, nothings changed there. I have launched it from shell using the Force QT option however and it's the same.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

[Bon (ian-bonham)]

I have also tried the --reset flag with frontend in case it needed to be forced to refresh some stuff after the upgrade was applied, but still the same.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Well the other important point is i know -ati driver is in flux. It's
possible that if you don't have the kernel and userspace parts in sync (as
the archive has delays), that might be causing some troubles too

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:32, Bon <email address hidden> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 341898 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341898
>
> I have also tried the --reset flag with frontend in case it needed to be
> forced to refresh some stuff after the upgrade was applied, but still
> the same.
>
> --
> X Problems In MythTV on Jaunty
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344743
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of MythTV
> Ubuntu Maintainers, which is subscribed to mythtv in ubuntu.
>

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Mario Limonciello
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[Bon (ian-bonham)]

I knew there were problems with the ATI fglrx driver, those are noted on the release notes for Jaunty, but I didn't know the open source radeon drivers were dodgy as well?
I will keep upgrading and hope it sorts it's self, but I felt this was a fairly important bug.

I have noted my findings on the original bug report, it would be interesting to find out what video card drivers others with the same problem are using.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

That's the reason I marked this as a duplicate. They were also using the
radeon drivers.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:34, Bon <email address hidden> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 341898 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341898
>
> I knew there were problems with the ATI fglrx driver, those are noted on
> the release notes for Jaunty, but I didn't know the open source radeon
> drivers were dodgy as well?
> I will keep upgrading and hope it sorts it's self, but I felt this was a
> fairly important bug.
>
> I have noted my findings on the original bug report, it would be
> interesting to find out what video card drivers others with the same
> problem are using.
>
> --
> X Problems In MythTV on Jaunty
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344743
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of MythTV
> Ubuntu Maintainers, which is subscribed to mythtv in ubuntu.
>

--
Mario Limonciello
<email address hidden>

[Bon (ian-bonham)]

He is on the laptop, but he mentioned a test on a desktop with no related hardware and the same thing occured. I've asked to check if the desktop does indeed have ATI graphics

[Bon (ian-bonham)]

Nope, Paul's Desktop runs nvidia, and he's got the same problem

[Steven Ellis (steven-openmedia)]

I have the same issues with a clean 9.04 beta install under VMWare Fusion 2.04

I've tried the vesa and vmware video drivers, as well as trying to use the QT mode and always get the same results.