[mythtv-users] black screen after playing once Ubuntu 8.04 Beta/Nvidia

[Josh White]

Good morning all, I swear I remember seeing a thread similar to this, but I
can't seem to find it.  So I'm sorry if this is a repost, but here-goes
anyway:

I just updated one of my frontends to Ubuntu 8.04 Beta, with mythtv .21 from
the Ubuntu repositories, and I've run into some trouble.  With Ubuntu 7.10,
I had problems with video drivers, where I'd occasionally get a pink screen
when displaying video (regardless of the video player I used).  After
upgrading that install to 8.04 (mainly in hopes of fixing the video driver),
I now get a black screen, but it's more frequent.  Basically, if I watch a
recording or a video with the Internal player right after launching
mythtvfrontend, it works every time (this machine is also my desktop; I run
dual heads and watch on one screen while doing other stuff on my primary
screen).  However, when I finish watching the first video, if I go to open
anohter, I get the black screen, every time it seems. I have perfect audio,
but no video.  To solve the problem, I have to restart X
(ctrl-alt-backspace).  I can open several files in succession using mplayer
or VLC; this problem seems to be induced by Myth only.

I'm running the proprietary Nvidia driver on my GeForce 7900GT, version
196.12 with the 2.6.24 kernel.  The machine has a Pentium D CPU and 3GB of
DDR2 667 memory.

Thanks,

 Josh
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