[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] Re: Weird keypress issues? WAS: Two ugly issues with a fresh install

[Michael J. Lynch]

Cory Papenfuss wrote:

>>>> 1. QT/Mythtv seems hosed somehow on it's Cancel/NEXT/BACK buttons.  It
>>>> first happened when I ran setup... arrowing around and hitting 
>>>> enter does
>>>> *not* actually take effect as it should.  Playing around long 
>>>> enough, it
>>>> seems that the buttons are "off".  It's not just mythsetup, nor is 
>>>> it the
>>>> atrpms... the first time I tried with vanilla compiled mythtv.  For 
>>>> most
>>>> config screens, I need to arrow around to the *top* item and hit 
>>>> return to
>>>> actually go "Next."
>>>
>>
>> I noticed this, too. The buttons do not take Enter, but the right arrow.
>>
>     I'm pretty sure I tried every reasonable combination.  It's almost 
> like the focus and select don't stay in sync.  Something like the 
> button is in focus when a different button is selected... that's the 
> only way I've gotten it to press.

I ran into this last weekend with a fresh install using FC2.  It turns 
out that it's a problem
with qt-3.3.4-5.0.2.  I reverted back to qt-3.3.4-2.0.2 and the problem 
went away.


>
>> That's the old urw-fonts issue. The easiest work-arround is to use the
>> urw-fonts from FC2.
>>
>     Seems pretty odd, but I might give it a try.
>
>>>     I lied... I'd actually been running the 7127 and the problem went
>>> away after downgrading to 6629.
>>
>>
>> That's ugly. did you use nvidia-graphics-switch?
>>
>     I'd never used that before (but then again I generally rolled my 
> own mythtv, kernel, and nvidia drivers).  This time, however, I *did* 
> use it.  I think it's two issues.
> - nvidia kernel driver doesn't have an alias in modprobe.conf to just 
> 'nvidia'... only 'nvidia-1.0-XXXX'.  I added another alias and then X 
> will load it.
> - the nvidia-graphics-switch doesn't seem to do its library magic 
> correctly.  Basically even after running it and loading the correct 
> nvidia kernel module, the X server barfed due to mismated library 
> versions.  I did try 'ldconfig' in between but no luck there either.  
> My workaround was to uninstall the unused driver version.
>
>  >>     Problem #1 is still present though.
>
>>>
>     So it's the newest QT updates from Fedora that broke the buttons, 
> or is it a MythTV bug that was just exposed by the latest updates?
>
>
> -Cory
>
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> * Cory Papenfuss                                                        *
> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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