[mythtv-users] Suddenly Myth jumps to upper left corner

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Sat Dec 8 01:03:15 UTC 2007


Hi all,
   Today mythfrontend changed it's operation on my Gentoo AMD64
machine. I run the frontend as a free floating 800x600 window.
Normally I move Myth to the top right corner of the screen and go
through the previous evening's recordings while I work here at home.
For as many years as I can remember Myth has always stayed where I put
it. When I exit the program and choose another to watch the window
remainsin the top right where I have placed it.

   Today the operation changed. When I exit out of a recording the
window remains where it was but as soon as I start watching a new
program the window resets to the top left of the screen.

   I looked around for some config entry that might control this but
didn't find one. I went as far as to rebuild the frontend on my
machine but it still does the same thing.

   I had a very small list of things that updated last night:

1197001298:  >>> emerge (1 of 5) sys-libs/timezone-data-2007i
1197001322:  >>> emerge (2 of 5) net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r5
1197001383:  >>> emerge (3 of 5) sys-apps/man-pages-2.69
1197001419:  >>> emerge (4 of 5) sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.4
1197001439:  >>> emerge (5 of 5) sys-apps/busybox-1.7.4

   I have rebooted and see no error messages in dmesg. I ran
mythfrontend from a terminal and don't see any obvious things going on
but attach the terminal contents to this message at the end. I tried
deleting the osdcache and themecache directories and letting Myth
rebuild them but still have the same problem. Every time I start a new
playback the fronteld jumps to the upper left.

   Sure hope someone knows how to fix this.

Thanks,
Mark

lightning ~ # emerge -pv mythtv

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14814  USE="alsa dts dvd
frontendonly mmx opengl perl vorbis (-altivec) -autostart -backendonly
-crciprec -dbox2 -debug -directv -dvb -freebox -hdhomerun -ieee1394
-ivtv -jack -joystick -lcd -lirc -xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="-i810 -nvidia
-via" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
lightning ~ #


mark at lightning ~ $ mythfrontend --geometry 800x600
2007-12-07 16:56:43.580 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-12-07 16:56:43.585 DPMS is active.
2007-12-07 16:56:43.602 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-12-07 16:56:43.620 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.55
2007-12-07 16:56:43.625 Total desktop dim: 1280x1024, with 1 screen[s].
2007-12-07 16:56:43.645 Running in a window
2007-12-07 16:56:43.660 Using screen 0, 1280x998 at 0,0
2007-12-07 16:56:43.686 Overriding GUI, width=800, height=600 at 0,0
2007-12-07 16:56:43.692 Current Schema Version: 1160
2007-12-07 16:56:43.696 mythfrontend version: 0.20.20070821-1 www.mythtv.org
2007-12-07 16:56:43.698 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2007-12-07 16:56:44.347 Switching to square mode (Titivillus)
2007-12-07 16:56:44.414 Using the Qt painter
2007-12-07 16:56:44.786 Loading from: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
2007-12-07 16:56:45.162 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2007-12-07 16:56:54.637 XMLParse::LoadTheme using
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Titivillus/ui.xml
2007-12-07 16:56:54.741 Connecting to backend server:
192.168.1.55:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2007-12-07 16:56:54.746 Using protocol version 31
0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 323.684
1: start_time: 0.017 duration: 323.667
stream: start_time: 0.189 duration: 3596.704 bitrate=5190 kb/s
2007-12-07 16:56:55.960 AFD: Opened codec 0x27ab870, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2007-12-07 16:56:55.975 AFD: Opened codec 0x7ff850, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2007-12-07 16:57:02.380 XMLParse::LoadTheme using
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Titivillus/ui.xml
2007-12-07 16:57:03.526 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-12-07 16:57:03.554 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.55
0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 323.684
1: start_time: 0.017 duration: 323.667
stream: start_time: 0.189 duration: 3596.704 bitrate=5190 kb/s
2007-12-07 16:57:03.637 AFD: Opened codec 0xefebd0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2007-12-07 16:57:03.637 AFD: Opened codec 0x27b4400, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2007-12-07 16:57:03.838 TV: Attempting to change from None to
WatchingPreRecorded
2007-12-07 16:57:03.947 DPMS Deactivated
0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 323.684
1: start_time: 0.017 duration: 323.667
stream: start_time: 0.189 duration: 3596.704 bitrate=5190 kb/s
2007-12-07 16:57:04.164 AFD: Opened codec 0x33e3000, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2007-12-07 16:57:04.164 AFD: Opened codec 0x33e34a0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2007-12-07 16:57:04.168 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2007-12-07 16:57:04.803 VideoOutputXv: XvMCTex: Init failed
2007-12-07 16:57:04.804 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'ATI
Radeon Video Overlay'
2007-12-07 16:57:05.315 New DB connection, total: 3
2007-12-07 16:57:05.354 TV: Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
2007-12-07 16:57:05.354 New DB connection, total: 4
2007-12-07 16:57:05.356 Using realtime priority.
2007-12-07 16:57:05.408 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.55
2007-12-07 16:57:05.470 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.55
2007-12-07 16:57:05.505 Video timing method: DRM
2007-12-07 16:57:06.538 NVP: prebuffering pause
2007-12-07 16:57:06.633 TV: Attempting to change from
WatchingPreRecorded to None
2007-12-07 16:57:07.026 TV: Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None
2007-12-07 16:57:07.111 DPMS Reactivated.
0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 323.684
1: start_time: 0.017 duration: 323.667
stream: start_time: 0.189 duration: 3596.704 bitrate=5190 kb/s
2007-12-07 16:57:07.281 AFD: Opened codec 0x27a1750, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2007-12-07 16:57:07.281 AFD: Opened codec 0x27816f0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 323.684
1: start_time: 0.017 duration: 323.667
stream: start_time: 0.189 duration: 3596.704 bitrate=5190 kb/s
2007-12-07 16:57:07.830 AFD: Opened codec 0xea7270, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2007-12-07 16:57:07.831 AFD: Opened codec 0x3371330, id(MP2) type(Audio)
0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 323.684
1: start_time: 0.017 duration: 323.667
stream: start_time: 0.189 duration: 3596.704 bitrate=5190 kb/s
2007-12-07 16:57:08.883 AFD: Opened codec 0x7ff850, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2007-12-07 16:57:08.883 AFD: Opened codec 0xea1830, id(MP2) type(Audio)
mark at lightning ~ $


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