[mythtv-users] Violet screen on LiveTV

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Mar 11 17:14:11 UTC 2008


On 03/11/2008 11:46 AM, Nicolas Will wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 09:30 -0600, Ryan wrote:
>   
>> I have this problem constantly with my Nvidia Geforce Go 7900 GS.  I
>> have read (but dont have the links with me) that it is a bug with the
>> Nvidia drivers and should be fixed in the Beta, or least the next
>> version when it comes out.  I normally have to restart my X session
>> inorder for Myth to work properly.  Once myth works once, no other
>> video player will work until X restarts, and vice versa!
> This is an issue with some of the 100 series driver. I think recent
> releases fixed the behaviour, maybe not.
>
> On the other hand, using an old 1.0.9639 works like a charm.

Yeah.  We really need to put a "MythTV archive color search guide" up on 
the wiki.  Had the OP called that screen pink, he could have found a ton 
of posts in the archive telling him it's the NVIDIA driver version...  
;)  The hard part is decide which one is right--pink or violet...

Mike


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