I'm not too sure about why mythfrontend is whacky looking,. just for giggles, did you try running the frontend as root? as far as watching livetv, are you sure that you have the PVR-150 card setup right in mythtvsetup? i tried to set it up as a v4l capture card instead of a mpeg card and it freaked out on my similarly. just a couple of things to try.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Emmott</b> <<a href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com">memmott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I just finished a fresh install of Myth on Fedora Core 6 with a PVR-150 capture card, and a Chaintech GeForce FX 5200 video card. Right now I'm outputting via VGA to my monitor. The GUI works fine when I run mythtvsetup, but when I run mythfrontend the GUI is all 'whacky' looking. It's hard to describe, but basically the colors all look distorted and weird. Trying to watch live tv gives me a blank screen, and I can't get back to the desktop - I reboot via SSH. Switching themes and trying the OpenGL rendering engine don't help. Playing an MPEG that I captured through the PVR-150 card works just fine.
<br><br>I'm running:<br><a href="http://mythtv-0.20-146.fc6.at" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mythtv-0.20-146.fc6.at</a><br>2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 kernel<br>nv 8776 drivers<br><br>Any ideas?
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