[mythtv-users] No Display on Frontend

[Kirk Bocek]

On 8/6/2015 2:40 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 06/08/15 01:22, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 7/27/2015 11:55 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>>
>>> Blah, Blah.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> My no display issue is back. This time on my new ECS Liva. Actually 
>> it never
>> went away on the host I was first working on, I just found a 
>> work-around there
>> by restarting mythfrontend and the display would pop up.
>>
>> On the Liva this doesn't seem to work. My new information is that I 
>> discovered
>> that the frontend is actually running and responsive, just not 
>> displaying.
>>
>> If I blindly navigate the menus and get a program to play, then exit the
>> recording, the main menu finally displays.
>>
>> It's that first display of the menu on startup that's not happening. 
>> I've
>> selected the MythCenter-Wide theme. I get the textured blue 
>> background of that
>> theme but nothing else.
>>
>> This has now happened on two newly configured frontends. So I must be 
>> doing
>> something wrong setting them up. In short, I copy over config.xml to
>> /var/lib/mythtv/.mythtv, edit the host name and fire off 
>> mythfrontend. Something
>> else to do?
>>
> Make sure you have the correct video drivers installed and configured? 
> Any error or warning messages in the xorg log or the frontend log 
> after this sequence of events?
>

I've carefully gone over the log and just don't see anything that jumps 
out at me. For this host, I have the Intel open source drivers installed 
from 01.org. For the other host, I have the Nvidia closed source drivers 
installed.

Again, it's the weird thing where it just doesn't fire off the *first* 
time. Once I get the menu displayed through restarts or somehow getting 
a program displayed, all seems to be fine.