[mythtv-users] RHL9, MythTV, premature init of backend?

[Jarod Wilson]

A bit of background: I'm running RHL9, a WinTV PVR-250, a GeForce 4 Ti 
for s-video out to my TV and MythTV out of CVS...

I've been busy trying to verify the correctness/completeness of the 
guide I've been putting together (you can find the work-in-progress 
here: http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-page.php?pageName=rh9pvr250 ), and 
I've found a relatively major problem with this whole setup... If the 
mythbackend loads before X, all I get is channel 4 in MythTV, I can't 
change the channel, and I don't get any OSD show info (but the box at 
the bottom and the time show up).

It states in the /etc/init.d/mythbackend script that it loads after X, 
but this is not the case (at least not under RHL9). It is loading up 
well before X, which is the only reason I can figure out for it not 
working (it still fails if called from rc.local, the last init script 
run). If I disable the init script from loading it at startup, then 
manually start it up (from a root shell) after X loads, everything is 
fine...

However, I'm not sure why this would end up being the case, because the 
frontend and backend can be on different computers, and the backend 
doesn't even have to run X, so why would proper functionality of the 
backend require that X was already loaded?

I haven't figured out a workaround just yet, since daemonizing the 
mythbackend requires root privileges, and there's no easy way to get an 
automated root-enabled launching after a non-privileged user's login 
starts (my mythtv user). Perhaps it is a problem with the cvs version...

Anyone have any ideas?