[mythtv-users] ATI fglrx MytTV issues [was Re: Looking for recommendations for PCI-E 1x video cards]

[Stephen Boddy]

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 13:54 +0200, Hans Houwaard wrote:
> "Arthur Green" <arthur at phraction.org> schreef:
> >> Try:
> >> export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 mythfrontend
> >> (you can modify a menu entry to this too.)
> >> 
> >> It stops the corruption for me without needing the geometry setting, and
> >> giving working fullscreen.
> I have seen this fix and have used it to successfully start mythfrontend
> from the command line. How do I change these settings for the menu items in
> ubuntu XFCE (MythBuntu)? Will this also solve the issues when watching TV?

I can't answer whether it fixes live TV. I run a local MythTV without
tuners, to watch what was recorded on my remote backend that does the
recording. So I can't check that.

As to modding the menu, I guess the mythfrontend entry
in /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menudefs.hook is a place to start. I can't
really help much as I'm more of a gnome DE user, and there we can just
use alacarte (I don't know if alacarte works with the menus in
Mythbuntu, though it should, as they are standard xdg. You can try
installing alacarte with "apt-get install alacarte". It pulls in a load
of other stuff, which is why I'm not going to try it out.

HTH
Steve