[mythtv-users] Upgraded to SVN now having issues

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/12/2006 03:36 PM, BlackCamera wrote:
> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>   
>> BlackCamera wrote:
>>     
>>>   Recently I upgraded to SVN, to take advantage of myth archive.
>>> However after upgrading I find that mythfrontend is now a turtle.  I can
>>> start mythfrontend, and wait about 5 minutes before the whole front menu
>>> displays, same for any of the sub menus.  It doesn't matter what theme
>>> I've used so far (G.A.N.T. and Blue).  Even when I am using myth
>>> archive, it is so painfully slow to select items that I've given up.
>>> I am using AMD Duron(tm) 1.1Ghz with 1.5 Gb ram.  I'm at a loss at what
>>> could be causing the slowness, any suggestions are appreciated.
>> What screen painter are you using?  There is an option in the frontend 
>> to use either QT or OpenGL (do your menus fade in?).  Perhaps it is 
>> using OpenGL and your OpenGL isn't up to snuff.
>>     
>   Thanks, it seems it was a opengl issue, as when i ran mythfrontend
> like mythfrontend -O ThemePainter=qt. mythfrontend was back to its
> rabbit self.

And then you changed the setting using mythfrontend's Utilities/Setup 
section as described in the post to which Tom linked, right?  :)

Mike