[mythtv-users] Re: OSD gone with CVS??

[Curtis Stanford]

Same problem here, just since CVS yesterday. Two gentoo frontends, one works 
(VIA M10000 Nehemiah) and one doesn't work (Shuttle 2.4G Pentium 4). Very 
weird...

On November 6, 2003 10:29 am, Jason Miller wrote:
> On 06/11/03 09:33 -0600, Kirby Vandivort wrote:
> > > > >>>I just upgraded to the current CVS from pre 0.12 CVS.  There are
> > > > >>> quite a few improvements but I don't seem to have any on screen
> > > > >>> displays.  I hit 'i' during playback and nothing happens.  If I
> > > > >>> hit space during playback, nothing happens and no bookmark gets
> > > > >>> set.  If I hit 'z' it skips to the next cutpoint so it seems any
> > > > >>> action requiring an osd is dead.  I searched the archives and
> > > > >>> didn't see anything similar so I'm assuming I have something
> > > > >>> weird going on on my end.  Any suggestions.
> > > > >
> > > > >On 05/11/03 19:22 -0900, DanM wrote:
> > > > >>what theme?  IIRC some changes were made to the OSD which required
> > > > >> an updated theme.  See if it works with 'blue'.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>-dan
> > > > >>
> > > > >>jasonmiller at micron.com wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >I'm using the latest visor for 0.12 but I tried the blue and
> > > > > default, which I
> > > > >think is blue, osd and none showed any osd at all.  I also switched
> > > > > to the blue theme completely just on the off chance that did it and
> > > > > had the same problem.
> > > >
> > > > Make sure you're changing the 'OSDTheme' setting, which is separate
> > > > from the 'Theme' selection.  They're in 2 different parts of Setup. 
> > > > I'm not at my box right now, but IIRC the 'Theme' setting is in
> > > > Setup->Appearance, and the 'OSDTheme' is in 'Setup->TV
> > > > Settings->General (or Playback)'
> > > >
> > > > -JAC
> > >
> > > Right, I did that.  I changed the overall theme and the osd theme just
> > > to completely rule out Visor.  I tend to think it isn't the theme
> > > because space doesn't create a bookmark either.  Is the "Position
> > > Saved" text that pops up themable?  I did a clean checkout of CVS from
> > > last night, blew away /usr/local/share/mythtv and completely
> > > reinstalled.  Still the same problem. I'm at a loss.  And to top it
> > > off, I can't revert due to the changes in the database :/  I could live
> > > without the OSD but I'm a slave to the bookmarks :)
> >
> > I'm not at my box(es) right now, but I must say, when I read this thread
> > yesterday I thought to myself, that sounds like a strange problem.  Then
> > I updated my boxes to latest cvs (prior updates couldn't be more than 3
> > or 4 days prior).  All my machines are running latest gentoo.  My desktop
> > (hereafter known as IndyHome) showed the OSDs fine.  But my xbox does
> > not. Relevant lines from mysql show on primary line that looks to be the
> > culprit..  ThemeQt is set to 1 on IndyHome and it is not set on xbox1. 
> > I'm suspicious of that.  I'm not at home to test, however.
> >
> > | OSDTheme                  | blueosd    | IndyHome |
> > | Theme                     | blue       | IndyHome |
> > | RandomTheme               | 0          | IndyHome |
> > | ThemeQt                   | 1          | IndyHome |
> > | OSDThemeFontSizeType      | default    | IndyHome |
> > | ThemeFontSizeType         | default    | IndyHome |
> > | OSDTheme                  | blueosd    | xbox1    |
> > | Theme                     | blue       | xbox1    |
> > | RandomTheme               | 0          | xbox1    |
> > | ThemeFontSizeType         | default    | xbox1    |
> > | OSDThemeFontSizeType      | default    | xbox1    |
> >
> > (Interestingly, ThemeQt doesn't appear anywhere in the cvs tree...  Hmm..
> > maybe that's not the problem after all..  That row might be a holdover
> > from sometime in the past.. *shrug*)
> >
> > --
> >
> > Kirby Vandivort                      Theoretical and
> > Senior Research Programmer            Computational Biophysics
> > Email: kvandivo at ks.uiuc.edu          3051 Beckman Institute
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~kvandivo/    University of Illinois
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> > Fax  : (217) 244-6078                Urbana, IL  61801, USA
>
> I'm running Gentoo as well and do have ThemeQt = 1 so that doesn't seem to
> be a common thread.  I'll do some more significant digging this afternoon. 
> Any direction on where to start would be appreciated :)