I have installed MythTV (all the PLF versions) and when I click on MythTV or MythTV Setup I see a screen with variously blue-shaded blocks and bars, like a painting by Mondrian. The bars look like they should have writing on them but do not. If I fiddle about (tab, space bars etc) I can see a cursor and can move it between the fields and can right click and bring up a context menu showing 'Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, Select All, Select Input Method - Simple or XIM'.

I have a Radeon 9200 Pro Display and Hauppage PVR350. I am trying to connect to my UK cable set-top box (blueyonder).

Does anyone have any idea please?

Another question: I had previously installed VDR but didn't get any menu entry for VDR - is that normal? maybe normal for no connection?

Can you post a screenshot?

You might also consider using MythtvOS. It is a live (as in it will run from the cd) and installable version of a Mythtv centred distro. It is pre-configured for the UK and is a good way to test if your card and cablebox will work.

Hope this is what you meant?

Looks as if ready to show something but nothing is there, the fields are empty.

Will try MythtvOS and report tomorrow.

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{BBI}Nexus{BBI} - I d/l MythtvOS but when I try to go into admin (to make the suggested change because I am not using Freeview) I am asked for a su password which I do not have because I am using live disk.

Back here in Mandriva I am no further forward. I have checked my cables and they seem to be ok. And I don't seem to be able to play videos now.

If I remember correctly the admin pass is qazwsx

On the Mandriva side did you install the frontend and the backend?

Thanks for that p/w.

Today I tried Mythbuntu and it gets me to the exact same place as Mandriva.

BTW that looks to me like the panels and fields of a software, but for some reason I cannot see the text that should be there. There's a panel at the bottom right that seems to be the 'do it' button because when I put the cursor there and press enter the screen changes - just to a different lot of blue shapes. And there is a button at the bottom left that is the exit button.

Reading the system requirements for Mythbuntu

http://www.mythbuntu.org/requirements

I seem to have enough processing power (AMD Sempron 3300 - 2000MHz, required 1 GHz) and ram (1.5gb - required 192mb) but I am not sure about the volume of ordinary disk-space needed - nearly 100gb. At this time I have about 150 gb spare but spread over several drives, and they are NTFS. I do it that way because although linux oses can use NTFS, windoze cannot use linux partitions. This way whatever I am booted into has access to all the files. Hopefully I can tell MythTV where to store files.

And yes I installed frontend and backend.

I'll try MythtvOS again now.

I did try but no luck except that I am now sure that the blue shapes I have been seeing is actually MythTV but in some editable photo negative-type form because the bottom-left and -right buttons are in the same places and it just feels like it. I think tomorrow I may switch the PVR350 to my newest build pc which has an Athlon 2.8GHz processor. The box says '64' - and 'true dual core design': does that mean I should be running the 64bit system ?

Does MythTV need online-access? I would like to run MythTV on a separate pc from my torrents etc.