[mythtv-users] "Whitescreen" on start in 0.27

[John Pilkington]

On 17/01/14 14:50, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/17/2014 09:42 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 17/01/14 14:31, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> On 01/17/2014 07:36 AM, velberrocks wrote:
>>>> when mythfrontend or mythbackend-setup is started then at first a
>>>> completely white screen appears for 0.5 to 2 Seconds. After that the
>>>> application appears. This happens on VGA output and TV Out (SVIDEO) as
>>>> well.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to turn off this white screen or to use the color black
>>>> instead of white. In MythTV 0.25 was no white screen at all...
>>>>
>>>> Environment:
>>>> - Mythbuntu 12.04
>>>> - MythTV 0.27 (upgraded from 0.25)
>>>> - Mythwelcome is activated
>>>> - NVidia 8400GS with NVidia proprietary driver
>>>> - AMD4850e, AMD790G Chipset, 2GB Ram
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have an idea how to avoid the white screen?
>>>>
>>>
>>> What MythTV Theme?
>>
>> I have 0.27-fixes builds up to date as of last week under Fedora 19
>> and Scientific Linux 6,  Both use the MythCenter-Wide theme in a KDE
>> window.
>>
>> I see the white screen on the SL6 machine, Paint Engine Qt; not with
>> Fedora,  Paint Engine Auto.
>
> Sounds like maybe the OP should change his Paint Engine to Auto, and is
> only seeing the white color of a blank window given to us by the system
> because the Qt painter is slow?
>
> Paint engine
> This selects what MythTV uses to draw. Choosing 'Auto' is recommended,
> unless running on systems with broken OpenGL implementations (broken
> hardware or drivers or windowing systems) where only Qt works.
>

I should perhaps have added that the SL6-kludge box still isn't really 
using MythCente-Wide, although it says it is;  I have never seen the new 
scrolling and background image features on it.  Reported here on 2 Oct 
2013 and not yet understood, at least not by me.