[mythtv-users] pcHDV3000 stop working, and x server exit crash on upgrade to 0.19 trunk

Brad Templeton brad+myth at templetons.com
Fri May 26 08:01:05 UTC 2006


On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 01:28:46AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/26/2006 01:06 AM, Brad Templeton wrote:
> > 3) Minimalist-wide is oddly acting worse than a year ago.  All images
> > vanish if you move over them.  Somtimes it puts the x server in
> > another strange mood, looking like 8 bit colour, but if you switch
> > the focus to another window the colours look ok.   I switched to
> > mythcenter-wide though I have not yet figured how to customize 
> > list colours in it.   this is thus pretty minor.
> 
> Enable the OpenGL theme painter in the frontend settings under 
> appearance.  If your card supports OpenGL, it will fix the problem.  If 
> not, it will make the UI unusably slow.  :)

Actually, that made it worse, crashing the X server on start of mythtv.
An update to a newer xorg-x11 fixed that, but it then displayed a black
screen, so switching back to QT made it work, and also fixed the other
x server crashes.   A note for others who run into this.


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