[mythtv-users] No Display on Frontend

[Kirk Bocek]

On August 7, 2015 9:49:47 PM PDT, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hoi Kirk,
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>Saturday, August 8, 2015, 2:21:36 AM, you wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> The other host having this problem is quite a bit slower starting  
>> up than the ECS Liva so this might be applicable.
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>> mythwelcome? You meant mythfrontend right?
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>> 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?
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>> I installed twm which is easily available on CentOS 6. I'm sure I  
>could have found others.
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>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.
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>Tot mails,
>  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
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>"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>Het eeuwige dilemma
>Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
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>De lerende Mens
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Well I didn't use it here either. I still ran mythfrontend directly. What exactly does mythwelcome do?