On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 18:19 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I'm not understanding why your system isn't finding the right video
> driver. It appears hal wants you to run the i915 driver. Is the i915
> driver in memory? (lsmod|grep i915)
> 
camille ~ # lsmod|grep i915
i915                   26624  1 
drm                    54168  2 i915

> Is it on your system? On the 32-bit machine they are in /usr/lib/dri.
> Your Xorg.0.log file says they aren't there. Why not?
> 
camille ~ # ls -al /usr/lib/dri
total 2120
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    4096 Apr 11 09:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 175 root root  110592 Apr 14 23:56 ..
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 2047960 Apr 12 03:17 swrast_dri.so


> If they really aren't there then you need to build them. They are
> provided byxf86-video-intel.  I don't have them on this AMD64 machine
> but note that if I wanted to add them then they drag in XvMC which I
> am suspecting is causing the segfault crash on my wife's 32-bit Intel
> based machine:
> 
> lightning mythtv # emerge -pv1 xf86-video-intel
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild  N    ] app-admin/eselect-xvmc-0.1  0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/libXvMC-1.0.4  USE="-debug" 220 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.6.3-r1  USE="dri -debug" 772 kB
> 
> Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 992 kB
> lightning mythtv #
> 
camille ~ # emerge -pv xf86-video-intel

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.6.3-r1  USE="dri -debug"
0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

> I am curious as to whether this matters. xvmc is one of the rendering
> technologies and is pretty much default with Myth. On my wife's
> machine neither implementation is selected. Possibly that's part of
> the problem on her machine. I'll have to play with that a bit:
> 
> dragonfly ~ # eselect xvmc list
> Available XvMC implementations ( * is current ):
>   [1]    xorg-x11
>   [2]   intel
> dragonfly ~ #
> 
Could this be the problem?  None of them seem to be selected:

camille ~ # eselect xvmc list
Available XvMC implementations ( * is current ):
  [1]    xorg-x11
  [2]   openchrome
  [3]   openchrome-pro
  [4]   intel

> I don't know what other clues to give you. I'm going back to xorg-1.3
> as we speak to see if I can get her machine working again. I'll let
> you know how it goes.
> 
> - Mark
> 


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