[mythtv-users] No Display on Frontend

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Thu Aug 6 17:05:49 UTC 2015



On 8/6/2015 9:46 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>
>
> On 8/6/2015 2:40 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> On 06/08/15 01:22, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/27/2015 11:55 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Blah, Blah.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>
> I've carefully gone over the log and just don't see anything that 
> jumps out at me. For this host, I have the Intel open source drivers 
> installed from 01.org. For the other host, I have the Nvidia closed 
> source drivers installed.
>
> Again, it's the weird thing where it just doesn't fire off the *first* 
> time. Once I get the menu displayed through restarts or somehow 
> getting a program displayed, all seems to be fine.

Oh, yeah, could this be a 0.27.4 bug? I've been lazy about upgrading to 
0.27.5.


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