[mythtv-users] Mythbackend problem as daemon?

[Matthew Daubenspeck]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:45:25PM -0400, Andrew Hogue wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experiencing a funny little problem.
> 
> When I reboot my computer and then log in and start mythfrontend, I am
> unable to watch TV.  I see a blue screen, I get audio but no video.
> 
> However, I did notice that when I didn't run mythbackend as a daemon at
> startup but ran it as a process just before I started mythfrontend, I
> could watch TV perfectly fine.
> 
> It seems that starting mythbackend in the startup process isn't working
> properly.

I had the same problem and realized that the problem was that
mythbackend actually started before my video card drivers were loaded.

I am using Gentoo and stuck the bttv module loads in the local.start
script, which loads much after mythbackend starts. Adding a mythbackend
restart just after my bttv loading script solved the problem.

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  Matthew Daubenspeck
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