[mythtv-users] Foxconn A7GM-S

[John Finlay]

Arthur Green wrote:
> John Finlay wrote:
>
>   
>> Ubuntu installed easily and it has a mechanism to install the fglrx (and 
>> nvidia) drivers easily. Mythtv was easy to install. I initally set up 
>> the frontend to run in a window at a size that would fit my display. 
>> That worked well for displaying the gui but playback of HD seemed to use 
>> a lot of cpu and the playback was not smooth. Trying various profiles 
>> didn't seem to helpp but since I wasn't planning to use it for playback 
>> I didn't care. I then reset it to notplay in a window and set the size 
>> back to (0,0) which then caused the display to hash when mythfrontend 
>> started up - it seems that there is a problem with the driver when the 
>> native size is used. Anyway I'm not able to get mythfrontend working 
>> anymore. Haven't used much other than firefox so I can't comment on 
>> stability, etc.
>>     
>
> The hash problem (apparently known as the checkerboard of doom) can be 
> fixed by setting the environment variable LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 for 
> your mythtv user.
>   
Thanks. Unfortunately that didn't work in my situation but what did work 
was to make the gui resolution different than the display resolution 
i.e. 1920x1192 instead of 1920x1200

John