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 >
