[mythtv-users] Mythbackend error

mind7 mind7 at elint.org
Fri Apr 25 00:39:01 UTC 2003


Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Wednesday 23 April 2003 07:06 am, mind7 wrote:
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>>So far I have follow the install instruction to a tee on a fresh install
>>of Slack9.0. When I attempt to run mythbackend I get the following:
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>>Starting up as the master server.
>>Probed: /dev/video0 - Television
>>Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite1
>>Probed: /dev/video0 - S-Video
>>Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite3
>>VIDIOCSPICT: : Invalid argument
>>VIDIOCSPICT: : Invalid argument
>>VIDIOCSPICT: : Invalid argument
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>> From what I gather this is part of video4linux. All in all, lost on this
>>error, any help I can, I would be grateful.
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>You'll notice that the error messages in question do not prevent operation of 
>mythtv at all, they're just it complaining that it can't set the 
>brightness/contrast/color settings.
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>Isaac
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>Is there anything else that needs to be loaded after that error? It just haults after giving the above errors and if I ran mythfrontend it will load, I can watch T.V., sorta. It will only let channel 3 (or the default starting channel) load and I cannot access the TV guide, I can rewind and move forward on the fly, but up or down arrows will lock the program (not sure what the keys are meant to do)
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Curtis

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