[mythtv-users] Keyboard and Remote non-functional

[Doug Goldstein]

Basically I've setup my system using the two walkthroughs that I found 
to automatically boot and start up mythfrontend. The first one was based 
on Gentoo (which is what I use) and it had me use mingetty instead of 
agetty on tty1. Everything worked fine except I had no keyboard or 
remote input into the program. It always stayed on the first menu 
choice. I even switched from twm to fvwm and that didn't help. I've 
tested the remote control input with irw and it works. I can type 
perfectly fine in xterm's if I start those instead of mythfrontend and I 
can type perfectly fine in the console. Getting annoyed with the problem 
I switched to gdm based on a Debian walkthrough. Set that all up and it 
works and gets me to the exact same point as before. irw works, console 
& xterm works, but mythfrontend isn't receiving any input. Now if I 
startx from the console manually with the keyboard and then start 
mythfrontend from an xterm, it works like it's suppose to. But 
unfortunately that's really not workable since this system's home is 
buried away in a closet (it's my "server") so I've got to yank it out 
and stick on a keyboard to do that everytime. Any ideas would be more 
then welcome...

I've got the following software combos.
mythtv-0.14
lirc 0.7_pre2
Hauppauge IR remote on WinTV card
lirc compiled in natively with mythtv.

mythtv user name = mythtv
mythtv's groups = users,audio,video

ls -l /dev/lircd
srw-rw----    1 root     video           0 Feb 29 13:12 lircd

mythfrontend is running

root      1845  0.0  0.3 14116 3980 ?        S    13:15   0:00 /usr/bin/gdm
root      1846  0.2  1.9 89700 20300 ?       SL   13:15   0:04 
/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -nolisten tcp -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7
mythtv    1914  0.0  0.0  2176 1008 ?        S    13:15   0:00 /bin/sh 
/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions//Xsession
mythtv    1940  0.0  0.2  5004 2276 ?        S    13:15   0:00 fvwm2
mythtv    1942  0.0  0.0  1464  428 ?        S    13:15   0:00 irexec 
/home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc
mythtv    1943  0.1  2.4 42216 25284 ?       S    13:15   0:01 mythfrontend

#cat /home/mythtv/.xsession
fvwm2
#cat /home/mythtv/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc
Style myth* NoTitle, NoHandles, Sticky, WindowListSkip, SloppyFocus, 
GrabFocus, BorderWidth 0
 
DestroyFunc StartFunction
AddToFunc StartFunction
 
DestroyFunc InitFunction
AddToFunc InitFunction
/home/mythtv/bin/startmyth
 
DestroyFunc RestartFunction
AddToFunc RestartFunction
Read /etc/X11/fvwm/restart.hook Quiet
Read restart.hook Quiet
#cat /home/mythtv/bin/startmyth
#!/bin/sh
irexec ~/.mythtv/lircrc >> /home/mythtv/irexec.log 2>&1 &
mythfrontend >> /home/mythtv/mythfrontend.log 2>&1 &
#

The log file only has a bunch of this..

2004-02-29 13:42:40 mythfrontend version: 0.14.20040123-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-02-29 13:42:40 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2004-02-29 13:42:40 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2004-02-29 13:42:42 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler
                                                                                                                                                                        

syslog doesn't mention mythfrontend at all or lirc.

I've tested it with and without the irexec.

I'm at a total loss here. I know this is a long email. Thanks for taking 
the time to look.

-Doug Goldstein