mythtv-setup shows "empty" boxes with no contents, where text should be. Moving the cursor makes an orange bar move. Some amount of ESC and ENTER manage to exit mythtv-setup. This is a just-updated laptop, P4 with "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]" using xf86-video-ati-6.12.2 and xorg-server-1.6.2-r1. Also tried with xorg-server-1.6.1.902-r1. No other graphics issues with GL screensavers, etc. Ubuntu seems to have tracked down a couple of patches that first caused the bug in the supplied URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/341898/comments/31 and also some follow up issues: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/341898/comments/57 Apparently it doesn't happen with nvidia binary drivers, and intel drivers, but does with all (most?) other cards. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236809 looks similar, but I've made a new bug as it was never shown whether that was due to corefonts or not. $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.29-tuxonice-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-tuxonice-r3-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:30:02 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p24 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2, 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.0 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe " CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://orpheus.pcorp.com.au/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo/ ftp://gg3.net/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" LANG="en_AU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_AU en en_GB en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi aiglx alsa apache2 avahi berkdb bindist bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups daap dbus dga dri dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ieee1394 ipv6 isdnlog java javascript joystick jpeg jpegldap latin1 ldap libnotify lirc lm_sensors mad mdnsresponder-compat midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png posix ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection rss samba sdl server session smb spell spl sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff transcode truetype type1 unicode usb v4l vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs wma x264 x86 xcomposite xine xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_AU en en_GB en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati radeon vesa fbdev " Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Thanks!
Somehow even though the deb patch looks good after a bit of munging I can't get it to apply... looking through the source it should apply cleanly. Will try again later.
To "test" the theory listed on the other page, I ssh'd into the malfunctioning myth box (ssh -Y) with a nvidia-based laptop, ran myth-setup and it works fine. This is consistent with the comments here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/341898/comments/25. Still trying to play with that patch.
I downgraded to xorg-server 1.5.3-r7. According to the xorg-server ChangeLog, 1.5.3-r1 is the last xorg-server in portage dated before the conflicting commit. r1 is out of portage so I tried r7. After rebuilding the x11-drivers, xorg starts fine, and mythtv-setup now works great! I get to the menu screens within a second or two, and I can navigate and see fonts perfectly! Not sure whether mythtv should have a <= dependency on xorg - I'll leave that up to the experts :)
All the info you've provided thus far only point to bugs in the ATI DRI code when it comes to the software raster support. Which explains why when you rebuilt your xorg stack (potentially pulling in a newer revision with some patches there) it suddenly worked for you. Chalk this up to buggy drivers (amazing that the much vaulted open source drivers are usually buggier then the binary only drivers) and be happy it now works.
