mythtv blank after nvidia driver upgrade[SOLVED]

[Contraband]

I upgraded my nvidia driver to 1.0.9629 so I can use AIGLX. Now when I start mythfrontend, I get the background image for one second, then it goes black. If I blindly press return a couple of times to view live tv, the video shows up, complete with OSD. But escaping back to the menu returns to the blank screen. Any thoughts?

[pteppic]

I'd rebuild qt-3 first off

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emerge -1a =x11-libs/qt-3*

[Contraband]

I'd rebuild qt-3 first off

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emerge -1a =x11-libs/qt-3*

This did not solve the problem...hmmmm...

[pteppic]

Do you use qt or opengl for the 'ThemePainter'. If it's opengl, you can either change the painter with mysql on the commandline, or try rebuilding mythtv (ccache is your friend )


Just in case, mysql syntax for changing the ThemePainter,

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mysql -h <hostname> -u mythtv --password=mythtv mythconverg
mysql> update settings set data="qt" where value="ThemePainter" and hostname="<hostname>";
mysql> \q

Then you can get back in and see if it works, if it does either use qt or rebuild it.

[Contraband]

Great! Changing the ThemePainter setting to qt fixed it. Thanks.

[Shan]

While switching to qt worked for me as well, I found that re-setting my opengl settings allowed me to go back to opengl mode (which is what I prefer)

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eselect opengl set nvidia

Of course that assumes you're using the nvidia drivers and such.

YMMV