[mythtv-users] Theme shows no text

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2008, at 1:28 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>
>  > Hi again
>  >
>  > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com
>  > > wrote:
>  >> Playing with the theme, now I have a theme with just a blue
>  >> background, no text.
>  >> This happens in both mythfrontend and mythtv-setup !
>  >
>  > By editing the settings in mythweb, I've managed to revert to the
>  > first theme G.A.N.T
>  >
>  > However is problem happens when I select OpenGL as Paint Engine.
>  >
>  > I have just replaced my video card with a Nvidia 8600GT, you would
>  > expect that video card to support OpenGL (and indeed nvidia program
>  > shows OpenGL as available).
>  >
>  > Any ideas what I could do to get OpenGL working with mythtv ?
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  > Jean-Yves
>
>  It sounds like you don't have OpenGL working correctly. Are you using
>  the nvidia binary drivers or the nv open source drivers? Check your
>  xorg.conf file. If it says "nv", install the nvidia binary drivers.
>
>
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I've run into a similar problem. The OpenGL rendering is working fine
for the front end but when I use VNC (using Vino under Gnome) the text
almost always is not displayed. I don't know if this has to do with
the way things are "faded" in or not...

Richard