Got it resolved. I reinstalled her notebook with Ubuntu Linux (still based on debian), but which uses X.org instead of XFree86. It was a stupid-simple install (thanks Ubuntu!) and now mythtv "just works".
Cheers, -Brian Brian Elliott Finley wrote: >Help! > >Trying to get wife's notebook working as a mythtv client. My notebook >works fine with the same configuration (different model), but her >display is funky: > > http://thefinleys.com/mythtv.jpg > > >What you are seeing: Family Guy episode on left (connected to the >backend machine successfully), blue band, then desktop showing on the right. > >Misc. system details: > > XFree86 4.3 > Debian Unstable > mythtv 0.17 (also happened w/0.16) > Graphics chipset is: i810 > >Any ideas would be most appreciated. > >Thanks, -Brian > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
