[mythtv-users] My myth display is on acid

[William Munson]

Matt Emmott wrote:
> I just finished a fresh install of Myth on Fedora Core 6 with a 
> PVR-150 capture card, and a Chaintech GeForce FX 5200 video card. 
> Right now I'm outputting via VGA to my monitor. The GUI works fine 
> when I run mythtvsetup, but when I run mythfrontend the GUI is all 
> 'whacky' looking. It's hard to describe, but basically the colors all 
> look distorted and weird. Trying to watch live tv gives me a blank 
> screen, and I can't get back to the desktop - I reboot via SSH. 
> Switching themes and trying the OpenGL rendering engine don't help. 
> Playing an MPEG that I captured through the PVR-150 card works just fine.
>
> I'm running:
> mythtv-0.20-146.fc6.at <http://mythtv-0.20-146.fc6.at>
> 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 kernel
> nv 8776 drivers
>
> Any ideas?
>
This one drove me crazy. Turned out to be the nVidia driver version I 
was running. I think that your version is the version that gave me 
problems. Try the oldest driver available for your version kernel.

Good luck!