[mythtv-users] can't change channels :(

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Dec 11 22:37:09 EST 2003


On Thursday 11 December 2003 10:19 pm, James Colannino wrote:
> Hey everyone.  Forgive me if this has been asked before.  I've seen lots
> of people asking this question while googling around, but none quite
> match my problem.  On my remote, the channel up and down buttons just
> land me back on the same channel.  I've tried changing the channel via
> the menu, and that doesn't work either.  Entering numbers will display
> them, but then they will disappear without doing anything at all.  Does
> anyone know why this is happening?  mythfilldatabase worked perfectly.
> I can use mythtvsetup to tell it to start on a certain channel, and
> doing that will change it to that channel when myth starts up, but
> that's the only way I can change the channel.  Does anyone know why this
> is happening?  This is frustrating me very much :(

There is an error message in your mythbackend log file, or console you ran it 
from.

Isaac


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