[mythtv-users] System 'locking' on Watch TV

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Fri Apr 25 15:37:59 UTC 2003


On Friday 25 April 2003 11:30 am, Kaushik Mallick wrote:
> I am not sure if this is a coincidence or not, but
> this thing started happening to me as well last night!
> I am using a WinTV Go (Model 190) PCI card and I am
> running MythTV-0.8 on RedHat 8.0. Watching TV locks up
> the mythfrontend, I have to hit Ctrl-Alt-F4 to get to
> the desktop somehow and kill the terminals where I
> isssued mythfrontend from. Sometimes, its even worse
> and only thing that helps is a hard boot.

If it just locks up the frontend, then something else is running on /dev/dsp 
that's not letting it open it.

Isaac


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