Here is a hacky script I am now using to start mythfrontend and also get the VFD to work:<br><br>#!/bin/bash<br>sudo pkill -HUP mythlcdserver &<br>xterm -hold -e mythfrontend -v all,nodatabase,nomedia &<br>pid=$!<br>
sleep 5<br>
# terminate mythlcdserver and it will auto restart in 10 seconds<br>sudo pkill -HUP mythlcdserver &<br>wait $pid<br>sudo pkill -HUP mythlcsserver &<br># EOF<br><br><br>(Admittedly not great, but it gets the job done until I can find some kind of solution within mythtv)<br>
<br>Tim<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:47 PM, tim dennis <<a href="mailto:tdennis.sub@gmail.com" target="_blank">tdennis.sub@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>OK. so basically it boils down to this:<br><br>Mythfrontend 0.21 does not start mythlcdserver properly during initial start.<br>Only by restarting the mythlcdserver after mythfrontend is running does the VFD start to work (you can even let mythfrontend just auto restart mythlcdserver after 10 seconds)<br>
<br>1) $ mythfrontend<br><br>2) ...wait a few seconds until frontend is up and running...<br><br>2) $ sudo pkill -HUP mythlcdserver<br><br>3) ...wait 10 seconds...<br><br>4) Bingo!! VFD starts to work (and works great thereafter)<br>
<br><br>I guess I could make a little startup script for this, but it is kind of hackish, killing the LCD process just because it won't start properly the first time round.<br><br>Should I open a ticket on the Mythtv trac server?<br>
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<br>Tim</font><div><div></div><div><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>