[mythtv-users] Mythbackend problem as daemon?

[Wayne Vosberg]

ditto - but I added "modprobe ivtv" to /etc/init.d/mythbackend start 
function to workaround ...

Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:45:25PM -0400, Andrew Hogue wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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