[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend Refuses to Start

[HP-mini]

On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 11:42 -0700, Kirk Bocek wrote:
> 
> On 6/8/2015 11:21 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> > What do you mean by "It just hangs"? I always start mythfrontend
> > through a shellscript in an xterm. That way I can easily alt-tab to
> > the log. And the shell script has a loop with a menu so I can simply
> > restart or other. Never had any trouble there. The xterm/shellscript
> > is in my .xinitrc.
> >
> > Can you start other programs in that xterm? If you use a minimalistic
> > WM ore none at all you might have to do some setting on the
> > environment xterm is using.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> Figured it out. I had the screen painter set to Auto. I set it to qt and 
> the frontend now runs just fine from xterm.
> ___________________

The painter setting implies you have broken openGL setup & (possibly)
VDPAU.

If you are using ION or other low powered h/w then could pay to check
read through the outputs of:
grep '(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
vdpauinfo