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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have scoured the archives looking for an answer
to my problem. Somehow, I have totally screwed up my installation of
mythfrontend. The backend seems to be working just fine, but somehow, I mucked
things up and my frontend won't start correctly.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just upgraded my video card drivers and they seem
to be happy with X all alone. But if I start mythfrontend, the "Prescaling
images" dialogs appear, progress and disappear, but then the frontend just hangs
there.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And if I check top, my cpu usage is at like 97/98%
with X gobbling all of it. I can't kill mythfrontend and the only thing that
seems to work is to kill X manually and forcefully. I can't use the mouse or
keyboard within X and I can't get to a command-line. If I have an ssh session
open to the machine though, I can do stuff no problem. So the machine is not
dying, just something about the interaction of X and mythfrontend. I did just
upgrade to .18.1 and everything was going fine.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>THe only change I have made is my video card
drivers. I did try to reinstall the old ones and uninstall the new ones etc.,
but this made both the NVIDIA installer and emerge (gentoo) angry and the only
thing I am now able to do successfully is install the newest driver from the
Nvidia installer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't really know what to look for. No errors
show up in any logs (i.e. system or mythbackend).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I run mythfrontend -v all | tee output, I
get:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2005-05-26 23:26:10.595 New DB connection, total:
1<BR>Total desktop width=640, height=480, numscreens=1<BR>2005-05-26
23:26:10.610 Using screen 0, 640x480 at 0,0<BR>2005-05-26 23:26:10.620
mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 <A
href="http://www.mythtv.org">www.mythtv.org</A><BR>2005-05-26 23:26:10.622
Enabled verbose msgs :all<BR>2005-05-26 23:26:10.974 max_width: 640 max_height:
480<BR>2005-05-26 23:26:11.136 Switching to square mode
(Titivillus)<BR>2005-05-26 23:26:11.477 /root/.mythtv/joystickmenurc not
found.<BR>2005-05-26 23:26:11.479 Joystick disabled.<BR>2005-05-26 23:26:11.500
New DB connection, total: 2<BR>2005-05-26 23:26:11.625 Registering Internal as a
media playback plugin.<BR>2005-05-26 23:26:11.661 Registering MythDVD DVD Media
Handler as a media handler<BR>2005-05-26 23:26:11.665 Registering MythDVD VCD
Media Handler as a media handler<BR>2005-05-26 23:26:12.286 Registering
MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler<BR>2005-05-26 23:26:12.667 generating
cache image for:
/usr/local/share/mythtv/them<BR>es/default/blank.png<BR>2005-05-26 23:26:13.221
Starting media monitor.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now, I don't know if it necessarily means anything
that the media monitor message is the last because I can start and use
mythfrontend (somewhat) over a VNC connection. I can start mythfrontend and the
menu comes up just fine and I can move around and even watch recordings (not
actually watch, but they show up and I can play them).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I did look into the media monitor problems some
people had and tried disabling "Monitor CD/DVD", but that did nothing.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't know how I screwed it up this bad. I did
try reinstalling myth and mythplugins, but that didn't work. </FONT></DIV><FONT
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<DIV><BR>I really have been loving my system for over a year now and this has
been the first big problem since getting it set up initially.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Please let me know what other info you need me to let you know. I did
compile mythtv with debug support, so I can send a stack trace if need be, but
since there is not a crash or anything, I wonder if that's what is needed.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Sorry if I'm not giving you much to go on, I really want to be helpful to
all you wonderful people who have helped me in the past. Be gentle ;)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Some info on my system:</DIV>
<DIV>OS: Gentoo</DIV>
<DIV>CPU: Dual P3 1000Mhz</DIV>
<DIV>RAM: 1GB DDR</DIV>
<DIV>Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 4 440 MX</DIV>
<DIV>Previous version of driver: 1.0-6111</DIV>
<DIV>Current version of driver: 1.0-7174 (and they seem to be working)</DIV>
<DIV>uname -a: Linux frontend1 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #6 Sat Mar 26 17:18:25 CST 2005
i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope this is the type of info you need. I didn't
change any config files or anything when I upgraded drivers. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in advance,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ramzy</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>