[mythtv-users] Blue lines along left and top of screen

[Dan Wilga]

At 11:06 AM -0400 10/16/06, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>I found that index 0 doesn't work well for the FX 5200. I use:
>>
>>   xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 2
>>
>>There's also an xorg.conf option in the Screen section that may affect this:
>>
>>   Option         "TransparentIndex" "2"
>>
>>(I have not verified this latter method.)
>>
>
>Really, using some number that's close to, but /not/ equal to, zero 
>is much better for /any/ video card, anyway.  (In this context, the 
>range is 0-65535, so decide what close to means to you, but 1, 2, 
>10, 30, ... would all be fine.)  Unfortunately, though, people 
>always say to use 0 for some reason...

I should mention that the way to tell if you've chosen a "bad" number 
is to play around in X while there is some video also being 
displayed. (i.e.: start playback, Alt-Tab to another app and then try 
to use it.) If the video bleeds through into parts of the app's 
windows or the mouse pointer, then you know you have the wrong 
number. It's actually kind of a neat effect, though!
-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."