[mythtv] Loading EPG from Live TV Fails, Hangs Frontend

[Derek Battams]

Quoting Mark Buechler <mark.buechler at gmail.com>:

> On 4/2/06, usleepless at gmail.com <usleepless at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > QGLContext::makeCurrent(): Failed.
>> > QGLContext::makeCurrent(): Failed.
>> > X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10
>> >    Major opcode:  145
>> >    Minor opcode:  5
>> >    Resource id:  0x800007
>> > X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
>> >    Major opcode:  138
>> >    Minor opcode:  6
>> >    Resource id:  0x800007
>> >
>>
>> without having enough knowledge about the code involved, this sounds
>> like it is called from a non-gui thread, while it should be ran from
>> the main(gui)-thread.
>>
>> i might be wrong :-)
>>
>> while i was hacking on 0.18.1, i had about the same problems as you,
>> but this was regarding the creating of the xv-port. it would only open
>> once, and failed on subsequent attempts. temp-solution was restarting
>> frontend.
>>
>> as it turned out, it was closed from another thread than it was
>> created from ( if this is the case in the original 0.18.1 code, i am
>> not sure ).
>
> A would-around is to make sure your GUI and LiveTV resolutions are the same.
>
> - Mark.
>

Indeed, my GUI resolution is different than my live tv resolution.  I  
made slight adjustments to the GUI to account for the overscan on my  
tv.  Would this be a bug with MythTV?  Should I open a bug for this?   
I'll try the suggested work around in the mean time.

   - Derek