[mythtv-users] Why do I need to launch frontend with "-O ThemePainter=OpenGL"? And what relation does this have with vnc?

[Nick Morrott]

On 02/07/2009, Matt Beadon <matt.beadon at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I guessed that "-O ThemePainter=OpenGL" would also work and since I have a
> geforce 9300 I decided to use it instead of qt.  This choice was based on
> the setup comments that said something to the effect of "if you have decent
> hw use opengl".
>
> My questions are:
> 1) have I got something misconfigured that requires this ThemePainter
> argument or is this a default that should be added for everyone?

Had you previously configured your frontend to use the Qt painter
instead of the OpenGL painter. If you want to the setting to stick,
start mythfrontend with the -O parameter you are currently using, and
then change the configured paint engine on the first page of the
Setup->Appearance screens.

> 2) Any ideas how a crash on ext3 drives could change the behaviour of the FE
> like this?  Anything I should check/repair?

As a first suggestion, the database should always be regularly
checked, and repaired. MythTV provides a helper script
optimize_mythdb.pl for this purpose.

Nick

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