[mythtv] MythTV - DRI required?

[Cedar McKay]

On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 12:02  AM, COFFMAN Steven wrote:

> ATI Radeon 8500 + Athlon + Red Hat (7.3, 8.0, or 8.0.93) (any capture 
> card) do not play back with MythTV. The problem is not DRI, since 
> 8.0.93 does support it, and after playing glxgears at AGPx4, running 
> mythbackend and then mythTV gave me:
> connecting to backend server: localhost:6543
> Connection timed out.

well, it must be you ATI then (kidding!) because I have athlon+RH8.0 
and I'm sitting pretty here. I doubt it has anything to do with your 
video card since you are getting connection timed out errors.

> I wonder if it has anything to do with Red Hat's install allowing you 
> to name your machine rather than use the DHCP assigned name.


I doubt that too. I named my machine, and everything is fine. It still 
knows who "localhost" is. My advice is make sure mysql is set up right 
(passwords ok, database exists, databases populated, and make sure you 
have edited backend_settings.txt and changed the ip address there to 
"localhost". When in doubt a more careful reading of 
www.mythtv.org/docs/ seems to do wonders for lots of people who just 
skimmed them the first time.


best,

cedar


ps
this from my XF86config file. I commented out dri when I installed my 
nvidia drivers. Mythtv works very well with this setup.

Section "Module"
         Load  "dbe"
         Load  "extmod"
         Load  "fbdevhw"
##      Load  "dri"
         Load  "glx"
         Load  "record"
         Load  "freetype"
         Load  "type1"
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