[mythtv-users] Myth Permissions, sound and auto login

Allan Wilson allanwilson at gmail.com
Sun May 21 18:43:24 UTC 2006


On 5/21/06, Nick Ellson <grimm at nickellson.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to set my MythTV frontend (also the backend) so that from a
> power on/reset it will come up and load the Mythfrontend.
>
> I created a lowly user, told gnome to auto-login as that user. (that seems
> to work)
>
> I have a dual output GeForce 4 (using the DMI for Myth, the CRT for
> administration) And I normally start mythfront end like this:
>
> DISPLAY=":0.1" mythfrontend
>
> My lowly user couldn't do that and capture the sound card. (Even the gnome
> panel audio control stays permanently muted.) So I have the user "sudo"
> start the command above. That "kinda" worked.. Watching .iso movie rips
> works fine, but LiveTV has no sound. When I run alsamixer all my outputs
> are un-muted and at high volume. The same effect with MythMusic, it sees
> all my .mp3's, but will not play any of them. My MP3 directory is 777
> even.
>
> I am not sure if the reason I am having audio troubles is due to how I
> have my lowly user set-up. When I was just running a root account,
> everything worked (MythDVD/MythTV/MythMusic)
>
> I have also noticed that the MythTV module has odd behavior. If I have
> shows
> in the program queue ready to record, and I add one, I no longer see ANY
> of them. I have to drop the back-end and restart it, then my previous
> programs and my new one show up. If I am watching LIVE TV and I hit
> record, that taping works, but never shows up in the "Previously
> Recorded" list of shows, again until I restart Mythbackend.
>
> I would like to keep the auto login idea so my family doesn't have to mess
> with Linux. If I try to start the frontend before the GDM desktop is up,
> it fails to get my DISPLAY=":0.1" (as that display is still the B&W Xorg
> cross-hatching.)
>
> I am sorry if I have posted unrelated problems, but just in case all are
> related in an obvious way I thought it might help.
>
> Has anyone done the auto-login method using GDM that would share how you
> set it up?
>
> Nick


What  flavor of linux are you  using? I am using  Ubuntu and have that
working fine.

Allan
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