[mythtv-users] Re: OSD gone with CVS??
Jason Miller
jasonmiller at micron.com
Thu Nov 6 20:17:18 EST 2003
On 06/11/03 17:57 -0700, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> Same problem here, just since CVS yesterday. Two gentoo frontends, one works
> (VIA M10000 Nehemiah) and one doesn't work (Shuttle 2.4G Pentium 4). Very
> weird...
>
> On November 6, 2003 10:29 am, Jason Miller wrote:
> > On 06/11/03 09:33 -0600, Kirby Vandivort wrote:
> > > > > >>>I just upgraded to the current CVS from pre 0.12 CVS. There are
> > > > > >>> quite a few improvements but I don't seem to have any on screen
> > > > > >>> displays. I hit 'i' during playback and nothing happens. If I
> > > > > >>> hit space during playback, nothing happens and no bookmark gets
> > > > > >>> set. If I hit 'z' it skips to the next cutpoint so it seems any
> > > > > >>> action requiring an osd is dead. I searched the archives and
> > > > > >>> didn't see anything similar so I'm assuming I have something
> > > > > >>> weird going on on my end. Any suggestions.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >On 05/11/03 19:22 -0900, DanM wrote:
> > > > > >>what theme? IIRC some changes were made to the OSD which required
> > > > > >> an updated theme. See if it works with 'blue'.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>-dan
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>jasonmiller at micron.com wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >I'm using the latest visor for 0.12 but I tried the blue and
> > > > > > default, which I
> > > > > >think is blue, osd and none showed any osd at all. I also switched
> > > > > > to the blue theme completely just on the off chance that did it and
> > > > > > had the same problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > Make sure you're changing the 'OSDTheme' setting, which is separate
> > > > > from the 'Theme' selection. They're in 2 different parts of Setup.
> > > > > I'm not at my box right now, but IIRC the 'Theme' setting is in
> > > > > Setup->Appearance, and the 'OSDTheme' is in 'Setup->TV
> > > > > Settings->General (or Playback)'
> > > > >
> > > > > -JAC
> > > >
> > > > Right, I did that. I changed the overall theme and the osd theme just
> > > > to completely rule out Visor. I tend to think it isn't the theme
> > > > because space doesn't create a bookmark either. Is the "Position
> > > > Saved" text that pops up themable? I did a clean checkout of CVS from
> > > > last night, blew away /usr/local/share/mythtv and completely
> > > > reinstalled. Still the same problem. I'm at a loss. And to top it
> > > > off, I can't revert due to the changes in the database :/ I could live
> > > > without the OSD but I'm a slave to the bookmarks :)
> > >
> > > I'm not at my box(es) right now, but I must say, when I read this thread
> > > yesterday I thought to myself, that sounds like a strange problem. Then
> > > I updated my boxes to latest cvs (prior updates couldn't be more than 3
> > > or 4 days prior). All my machines are running latest gentoo. My desktop
> > > (hereafter known as IndyHome) showed the OSDs fine. But my xbox does
> > > not. Relevant lines from mysql show on primary line that looks to be the
> > > culprit.. ThemeQt is set to 1 on IndyHome and it is not set on xbox1.
> > > I'm suspicious of that. I'm not at home to test, however.
> > >
> > > | OSDTheme | blueosd | IndyHome |
> > > | Theme | blue | IndyHome |
> > > | RandomTheme | 0 | IndyHome |
> > > | ThemeQt | 1 | IndyHome |
> > > | OSDThemeFontSizeType | default | IndyHome |
> > > | ThemeFontSizeType | default | IndyHome |
> > > | OSDTheme | blueosd | xbox1 |
> > > | Theme | blue | xbox1 |
> > > | RandomTheme | 0 | xbox1 |
> > > | ThemeFontSizeType | default | xbox1 |
> > > | OSDThemeFontSizeType | default | xbox1 |
> > >
> > > (Interestingly, ThemeQt doesn't appear anywhere in the cvs tree... Hmm..
> > > maybe that's not the problem after all.. That row might be a holdover
> > > from sometime in the past.. *shrug*)
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Kirby Vandivort Theoretical and
> > > Senior Research Programmer Computational Biophysics
> > > Email: kvandivo at ks.uiuc.edu 3051 Beckman Institute
> > > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~kvandivo/ University of Illinois
> > > Phone: (217) 244-5711 405 N. Mathews Ave
> > > Fax : (217) 244-6078 Urbana, IL 61801, USA
> >
> > I'm running Gentoo as well and do have ThemeQt = 1 so that doesn't seem to
> > be a common thread. I'll do some more significant digging this afternoon.
> > Any direction on where to start would be appreciated :)
I'm running Gentoo as well. I'm in the process of running an
'emerge --deep -u all' right now. We'll see what happens. If it fixes things
though, it will highlight one of Gentoo's weaknessess. It's so easy to upgrade
everything that debugging is almost impossible :)
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