[mythtv-users] 0.20 LiveTV problem (video preview messed up)

[Edward Rosinzonsky]

On 12/5/06, Edward Rosinzonsky <erosin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/06, Edward Rosinzonsky <erosin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently upgraded from 0.19 on FC4 to 0.20 on FC6 (clean install),
> > and have the following problem:
> >
> > The video preview window (on the program guide screen) is corrupted
> > and always in the upper left corner (even though the theme places it
> > near the upper right corner).
> >
> > I suspected that it might be a problem with the nvidia driver, so I
> > tried various versions of it, to no avail.
> >
> > Anyone else run into this?
> >
> > Details of my setup:
> > Dedicated backend running on FC6 with PVR-500.
> > Dedicated frontend running on FC6 with nvidia card, running version
> > 9629 of the driver (from Atrpms).  Also tried 8776.
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
>
> Ok, I did a yum update (atrpms - stable), and now mythfrontend
> terminates as soon as the program guide is displayed.
>
> here's the output from mythfrontend:
>
>
> 2006-12-05 01:42:48.138 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2006-12-05 01:42:48.141 DPMS is not supported.
> 2006-12-05 01:42:48.147 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2006-12-05 01:42:48.152 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 192.168.1.2
> 2006-12-05 01:42:48.153 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s].
> 2006-12-05 01:42:48.263 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
> 2006-12-05 01:42:48.384 Current Schema Version: 1160
> 2006-12-05 01:42:48.384 mythfrontend version: 0.20.20060828-3 www.mythtv.org
> 2006-12-05 01:42:48.385 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> 2006-12-05 01:42:49.128 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s].
> 2006-12-05 01:42:49.128 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
> 2006-12-05 01:42:49.130 Switching to square mode (blue)
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> 2006-12-05 01:42:49.135 Using the Qt painter
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
...
> /var/cache/fontconfig/e3ead4b767b8819993a6fa3ae306afa9-x86.cache-2
> b7fbb000-b7fc3000 r-xs 00000000 03:02 296011
> /var/cache/fontconfig/e19de935dec46bbf3ed114ee4965548a-x86.cache-2
> b7fc3000-b7fc8000 r-xs 00000000 03:02 296072
> /var/cache/fontconfig/beeeeb3dfe132a8a0633a017c99ce0c0-x86.cache-2
> b7fc8000-b7fc9000 rwxp b7fc8000 00:00 0
> bf87c000-bf88f000 rwxp bf87c000 00:00 0          [stack]
> bf88f000-bf892000 rw-p bf88f000 00:00 0
> Aborted
>
I got it working.  I was missing the following in my xorg.conf:

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
	Load  "v4l"
EndSection

thanks.