[mythtv-users] no osd after upgrade to cvs

[Peter Lee]

I'm sorry if this is a re-post.  I'm not too sure what is going on,
but I am not seeing my posts or any replies, so I am trying one more
time...

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:46:54 -0500, Peter Lee <peteratcmu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:22:48 -0500, mielikki-ivtv
> <mielikki-ivtv at westbrook.com> wrote:
> > Peter Lee wrote:
> > > The upgrade went smoothly, except for one thing: The OSD is not
> > > working.  Everything else seems to be working perfectly.  I can pause,
> > > ff, rewind, etc in both live and recorded tv and it works just fine,
> > > but just no osd.  The program guide works.  But OSD-related things are
> > > not working.  For example, browse mode is not working at all (just no
> > > effect when I hit up/down-arrow in brose mode), and edit mode actually
> > > causes mythfrontend to freeze.
> >
> > I had a similar problem with the OSD and it turned out to be a
> > permission problem. I do a
> >
> >    chmod a+rw /dev/fb/2
> >
> > and it works. (You'll need to change the '2' to whatever your frame
> > buffer device in.)
> >
> > (A better solution might  be to set the group on the device to 'video'
> > and set the rw permission for group and not other and add the
> > mythfrontend user to the video group, but I'll leave that for you to
> > decide.)
> 
> Thanks for the tip, but forgive my ignorance:  I don't know what
> /dev/fb/2 is!  I have /dev/fb which is a link to /dev/fb0.  I thought
> that /dev/fb0 was my framebuffer device.  Am I wrong about that?  At
> any rate, I did a chmod a+rw on /dev/fb0, but this did not have any
> effect on the osd.
> 
> By the way, I said before that going into edit mode causes
> mythfrontend to freeze.  I was wrong about that.  Nothing freezes.
> It's just that edit mode becomes hard to use without the osd...
> 
> Anyway, I am stumped on this.  Do I need a more recent ivtv?  I am
> currently running ivtv-0.1.10-47_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at.
> 
> Peter
>