[mythtv-users] Fw: Re: blank frontend screen

[Jake Anderson]

It is probably a driver issue.
It might be something particular to your card though.
I believe i had one under 7.10 that just did not work with the opengl 
painter.
opengl for vsync seemed to work though ;->


Bob Hackenberg wrote:
> That worked.  Actually, the argument is -O, not --O.
>
> I did get it to work that way and I am watching a local channel.  Now I have to see about OpenGL.  Can I assume that it is not a video driver issue?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> bob
>
>
>   
>>  -------Original Message-------
>>  From: Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com>
>>  Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] blank frontend screen
>>  Sent: 28 Oct '08 20:17
>>  
>>  On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Jake Anderson wrote:
>>  
>>  > I have seen this issue.
>>  > It was related to openGL as I recall.
>>  > try using the arrow keys to move around a bit that will probably get  
>>  > the intro menu back.
>>  > go into the setup menu and turn all the openGL stuff off.
>>  > there *might* be something in mythtv-setup to do the same as well  
>>  > but i forget now.
>>  
>>  Launch with mythfrontend --O ThemePainter=qt to temporarily use QT  
>>  instead of OpenGL.
>>  
>>  Although, I would recommend fixing the OpenGL issues, of course.
>>  
>>     
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