[mythtv] New QPainter::begin : Cannot paint null pixmap

[Welch, Gary (Exchange)]

Did you install both the GLX and the kernel drivers for the NVIDIA card?

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From: mythtwo at cyph.org [mailto:mythtwo at cyph.org] 
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:05 AM
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv] New QPainter::begin : Cannot paint null pixmap


Also, since I started getting this QPainter::begin : Cannot paint null 
pixmap I get the same error when executing setup.

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 mythtwo at cyph.org wrote:

> Hi all,
> 	I just got the latest cvs and built it fine and installed it all 
> find. I then ran setup and it worked fine. After I ran setup and 
> filled the database I ran the backend which also worked fine. Then I 
> ran the frontend which started up fine. I then tried to watch TV and 
> it told me on the backend that it switched correctly but then the 
> frontend segfaulted because it said that it didn't have Xv support. So 
> I ran mythfrontend again to see what was going on and I tried to 
> change the theme to the liquid theme which worked fine. I then tried 
> to Watch TV again and this time it barfed with the same no Xv support, 
> but it also said
> 
> QPainter::begin : Cannot paint null pixmap
> Segfault
> 
> I figured the Xv support problem was a driver thing so I installed the 
> NVIDIA drivers for the Video card instead of using the VESA ones and 
> that works fine. But now every time I try and run the frontend now it 
> says
> 
> QPainter::begin : Cannot paint null pixmap
> Segfault
> 
> I thought maybe it was a broken theme so I tried to remove the configs 
> and reinstall everything but the problem is still there. I can't get 
> the frontend running anymore now that I changed it to liquid, even 
> though I removed all the themes, and actually removed all the 
> /usr/local/share/myth stuff and the .mythtv dir. Please help, I want 
> to play with 0.8 so bad. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
> 
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