[mythtv-users] updated to 0.18: watching TV now only with window-border possible

Robert Johnston anaerin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 21:27:16 UTC 2005


On 6/14/05, James Oltman <cnlibmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/14/05, Donavan Stanley <geckofiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/14/05, Uwe Schmidt <uwe.uwe at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > The only solution seems to be to switch to a different window manager like
> > > ratpoison, but trying this, my remote (lirc using irxevent) doesn't work
> > > anymore.
> >
> > ratpoison works fine with irxevent.  Chances are you had some sort of
> > auto startup stuff in fvwm that was launching it for you.
> >
> > I use the following for starting my frontends:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > #
> > xset -dpms s off
> > ratpoison &
> > /usr/local/bin/irxevent &
> > /usr/local/bin/irexec &
> > /usr/local/bin/xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY =v 0
> > mythfrontend >> /var/log/mythfrontend.log 2>> /var/log/mythfrontend.error.log
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> >
> 
> This command:
> /usr/local/bin/xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY =v 0
> simply changes the background color of X to black from blue.  It DOES
> NOT solve the problem of the actual video not being directly over the
> X backgroud.  I have asked many times on the forum if others have seen
> this issue and no one seems to have an answer.  Has anyone figured
> this out?

Yes. Downgrade to the NVidia Drivers v66.x or lower.
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston


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