[mythtv-users] Fedora 22 Screen Corruption

[OM Ugarcina]

Hello Mark,

You can see my experience with latest Nvidia drivers here:

http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2015-September/381716.html

Best Regards

O&M Ugarcina

> On 4 Oct 2015, at 5:11 PM, Mark Goldberg <marklgoldberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Mark Goldberg wrote:
>> In my attempts to figure out what was wrong I had cleared out my
>> previous settings and reverted to the defaults, which included
>> compositing being on. I disabled compositing and it seem to work
>> better, no tearing and smooth playback. It halts at a program change
> 
> Ok, I think it is finally working, here is what I did:
> 
> Installed Nvidia driver version 352.21 with the defaults allowing it
> to create xorg.conf
> 
> Did not disable compositing in xorg.conf.
> 
> Ran kdm, kde and Plasma desktop after clearing out the following and
> allowing kde to recreate them with defaults:
> ~/.i3
> ~/.config
> ~/.kde
> ~/.cache
> ~/.local
> 
> Went into system settings (systemsettings5) and did the following:
> Set it to autologin and run mythtv on login.
> Disabled the screensaver
> Disabled some desktop effects that looked like they were not helpful.
> Set the compositor to Enable Compositor On Startup IS NOT Checked,
> OpenGL 3.1, GLX, vsync is Re-Use Screen Content and Suspend Compositor
> For Full Screen Windows IS checked.
> 
> I have no tearing, it switches to the right refresh rates, no flashing
> triangles, no black menus.
> 
> I do have a couple of minor issues.
> 
> If I am playing video and bring up the kde menu or taskbar and it
> tries to show a preview of the window, myth frontend locks up.
> 
> I have had recordings from some channels lose audio for a few seconds
> near the beginning of the recording. I am using HdHomeruns. It is in
> the recordings.
> 
> I hope this may be helpful to others.
> 
> Mark
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