[mythtv-users] OSD can't find fonts

[James A. Treacy]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 06:55:30PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/26/2009 06:45 PM, James A. Treacy wrote:
> > mythtv-setup works fine. Mythfrontent also starts perfectly. I can
> > even watch TV. The problem comes when watching TV and I do anything
> > that brings up the OSD. It is blank. Mythfrontent emits messages like
> > the following:
> >
> > 2009-03-26 15:10:40.875 OSD Theme Dimensions W: 640 H: 480
> > 2009-03-26 15:10:40.904 Unable to find font:
> >          No OSD will be displayed.
> > 2009-03-26 15:10:40.904 Couldn't load font:
> > [snip]
> > 2009-03-26 15:10:40.907 Unknown font: channelfont in textarea: channum
> > 2009-03-26 15:10:40.941 Unknown font: infofont in textarea: title
> >
> > I have googled around and have found nothing related to this.
> > Where are the fonts configured?
> >
> > msttcorefonts, ttf-liberation, xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi are
> > installed.
> 
> Change your OSD theme in mythfrontend settings.

I had already tried going from Default to Gray (and back again too).
This time I changed to Retro and it works (looks really nice to boot).
If this is something that crops up much, I hope the default is changed
to something that has a higher likelihood of working.

Thanks.

-- 
James Treacy
treacy at debian.org