[mythtv-users] mythfrontend black screen

George W Rocklein Jr grocklein at comcast.net
Thu Oct 19 03:26:38 UTC 2006


I think starting up mythfrontend as follows will get you back where you 
need to be.

$ mythfrontend -O ThemePainter=qt

Kirsten Partyka wrote:
> I recently enabled the opengl rendering in mythfrontend. Everything  
> worked wonderfully and it looked great. Then I rebooted my machine.  
> Now when I launch mythfrontend it prescales the images, then goes  
> black. Pressing enter allows me to view livetv, so it appears like  
> everything is still running, I just can't see any of the menus. Do  
> you think that opengl could be the cause of this?
>
> I guess as a short term fix I would like to go back to Qt rendering  
> and see if this fixes it, however I don't have the menu layout  
> memorized enough to do this blindly. Is there some way I can manually  
> change this setting without having to go through the graphical menus?  
> Sorry I'm new at this stuff!
>
> I'm running Kubuntu Edgy Eft, and Mythtv .20.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kirsten
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