[mythtv-users] No Display on Frontend

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 04:49:47 UTC 2015


Hoi Kirk,

Saturday, August 8, 2015, 2:21:36 AM, you wrote:




>



> Now, in my other VAAPI thread I was told to turn on OpenGL. Guess  
> what? That fixed *this* problem on my ECS Liva. I restarted the     
> host 8-10 times and it worked every time.

> Now I hadn't thought of using the window manager. I know the WM    
> itself is pointless since Myth won't use it. I'll try the sleep     
> too to see if X needs to settle down.

> The other host having this problem is quite a bit slower starting  
> up than the ECS Liva so this might be applicable.

> mythwelcome? You meant mythfrontend right?


> Well thank you Frank. The window manager idea solved the blank    
> screen on my other, very slow booting Nvidia host. It had always    
> shown the blue background and then briefly flashed a white screen.  
> But now it goes to the main menu after the flash instead of staying 
> on the blue background. So *does* mythfrontend use a window manager  if available?

> I installed twm which is easily available on CentOS 6. I'm sure I   could have found others.


One for the devs!, who say they do not support an installation without
WM. A lot of people have it working without, but it makes things less
predictable.
Oh, and mythwelcome is a shell program around mythfrontend. Try it.


Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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