[mythtv-users] Gentoo USE flags - no overlay on OSD?

[Marc Tousignant]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lianza
> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 9:41 AM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Gentoo USE flags - no overlay on OSD?
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have a feeling there's something in my USE flags which is preventing me
> from getting the OSD to work correctly with myth.  I'm using a Gentoo
> frontend with Myth 18.1 and an nvidia 5200 card.  When I connect from
> other
> frontends I can get the overlayed display (the blue pane that pops up to
> let
> you know how far you've skipped forward, etc).  With this one frontend I
> don't get anything though - just the TV picture.
> 
> My use flags, largely borrowed from this site (
> http://home.comcast.net/~alf_park/mythtv.html ), are as follows:
> 
> -----------
> x86 mmx sse 3dnow alsa avi crypt dvd flac gif imlib jpeg lirc mad mpeg
> mysql
> oggvorbis opengl png quicktime sdl tiff truetype X xmms xv zlib nvidia -
> arts
> transcode xinerama -nls net -ldap xvid v412 theora qt kde acpi
> ----------
> 
> Does anything stick out as something that would prevent my OSD from
> working
> correctly?  One thing I do notice is that on my "bad" frontend, myth's
> messages come out preceeded with "mpegvideo_xvmc" and on my "good"
> frontend
> the messages come out preceeded with "mpeg2video".  I'm not sure if this
> is
> relevant, but from my searches on this mailer I kept bumping into the term
> "xvmc" and have some suspicion that it's related (even though I don't know
> what it is).
> 
> Many thanks,
> Tom
> 

Tom,

Have you emerged mythtv-themes? The overlays are not a part of the base myth
install. I questioned something similar as a problem once and was informed
of this fact.

Marc