[mythtv-users] WEIRD mythtv setup problem

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/04/2008 11:50 AM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Fedor Pikus wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>     
>>> On 08/04/2008 01:55 AM, Fedor Pikus wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I did a fresh install of CentOS 5, then installed mythtv, then I run
>>>> mythtv-setup and I see the background, the icon (wrench), Mythtv on
>>>> the left, "main" in the top left corner, date in the top right corner,
>>>> and nothing else.  I wait, nothing shows up.
>>>>
>>>> By accident, I click somewhere on the scree, the input selection
>>>> screen appears. I click somewhere else, the channels screen appears.
>>>> Eventually I figured out that the setup menu is there, except I can't
>>>> see any letters. I can scroll up and down with arrow keys and press
>>>> Enter, and I get one of setup screens (and the letters there are
>>>> fine).
>>>>         
>>> Got fonts?  Specifically MS core web fonts.
>>>       
>> Got lots of fonts but no MS fonts: liberation fonts, Xorg fonts
>> (100dpi, Type1, truetype). BTW, I found out that the problem is also
>> present in mythfrontend, but only until I can find the setup menu
>> (without seeing the text) and change theme from GANT to something else
>> (I used Blue).
> You can override various settings on the command-line to mythfrontend like:
>
> mythfrontend -O ThemePainter=Qt
>
> You might try that as a start to see if you have an OpenGL vs. Qt theme
> issue.  You can check the various settings names in the settings table of
> the database and if it is a theme issue, override on the command-line to see
> if that is the case.

mythfrontend -O Theme=blue
mythtv-setup -O Theme=blue

or just install the MS core web fonts, and even G.A.N.T will work.

Mike