[mythtv-users] No Display on Frontend

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Thu Aug 6 09:40:12 UTC 2015


On 06/08/15 01:22, Kirk Bocek wrote:
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> On 7/27/2015 11:55 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
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>> Blah, Blah.
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> My no display issue is back. This time on my new ECS Liva. Actually it never
> went away on the host I was first working on, I just found a work-around there
> by restarting mythfrontend and the display would pop up.
>
> On the Liva this doesn't seem to work. My new information is that I discovered
> that the frontend is actually running and responsive, just not displaying.
>
> If I blindly navigate the menus and get a program to play, then exit the
> recording, the main menu finally displays.
>
> It's that first display of the menu on startup that's not happening. I've
> selected the MythCenter-Wide theme. I get the textured blue background of that
> theme but nothing else.
>
> This has now happened on two newly configured frontends. So I must be doing
> something wrong setting them up. In short, I copy over config.xml to
> /var/lib/mythtv/.mythtv, edit the host name and fire off mythfrontend. Something
> else to do?
>
Make sure you have the correct video drivers installed and configured? Any error 
or warning messages in the xorg log or the frontend log after this sequence of 
events?

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Mike Perkins



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