[mythtv-users] gentoo, latest mythtv - mythfrontend has no text

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 17:32:58 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:22 PM, John Drescher<drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Tom Dexter<digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Kingsley Turner<krt at krt.com.au> wrote:
>>> Erik Hovland wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I booted my frontend this evening after being on vacation for a week.
>>>> And up popped...no text. The interwebs are full of advice like setting
>>>> DRI to off and XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1. Those don't seems to work
>>>
>>> I had this problem playing around with the video driver.
>>>
>>> I had the theme background but no text.
>>>
>>> The problem was twofold, but stemmed from me playing around with the video
>>> driver - I had inadvertently broken OpenGL - but had configured MythTV to
>>> use the OpenGL renderer for the user interface.
>>>
>>> Repairing the video driver - GLX in particular, sorted it out immediately.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> -kt
>>>
>>
>> I just ran into a similar odd issue with my Gentoo frontend:
>>
>> I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.28-r5 to 2.6.29-r5.  When recompiling
>> lirc it wanted to upgrade to lirc-0.8.5 so I did that.  When I
>> rebooted and the frontend started, it displayed the background of my
>> theme (I'm using glass-wide) and nothing else.
>>
>> I rebooted to the old kernel and everything worked fine.  Just out of
>> curiosity I switched to another theme (MePo-wide) and booted to the
>> new kernel.  That worked fine.  At that point I was able to switch
>> back to the glass-wide theme and everything worked fine even if I
>> rebooted.
>>
>> It seems as though, for whatever reason, it needed to rescale the
>> theme images into cache in order to work correctly.  Now everything's
>> fine.  Anyone ever see anything like that?
>>
>
> Rescaling of images happens every single time I upgrade mythtv.
>
> John

Yea, that always happens for me as well.  I'm confused as to why a
kernel upgrade would cause the frontend to have an issue until the
image cache was rebuilt...really odd.  I've been through more kernels
than I can count on that frontend without ever running into that.

Tom


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