[mythtv-users] Please please help me
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Feb 27 23:38:30 UTC 2006
On 02/27/2006 06:27 PM, N.E.Whiteford wrote:
> For the love of God please someone help me with the myth problem I'm
> having. I've asked this before but the response I've got is "maybe it's
> a focus problem", someone suggested I try rat poison, this seems a
> little drastic at this point.
>
That was me. I meant to try the Window Manager called "Ratpoison" (
http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ ) Glad you didn't blindly take my
advice before getting the clarification, though. :)
> The problem is that after changing channel once mythtvfrontend is
> unresponsive and doesn't let me change channel, tho I can still watch
> tv. The logs and console output show nothing abnormal.
>
Have you tried using LIRC with Myth's native LIRC support (i.e. "prog =
mythtv" ). If you have a focus issue and the keyboard stops responding,
native LIRC will continue to function properly (and allow you to control
the app). Note, however, that using irxevent ("prog = irxevent") may
show the same problems as your keyboard--depending on how you've
configured LIRC.
> I'd like to do some debugging, but gdb uses up all available memory and
> kills the backend when I do this. So can someone give me a few
> tips? Perhaps just tell me which classes deal with responding to
> keyboard events when changing channel and how this is switched off and
> no, then maybe I can add some couts and start debugging?
>
If you can get native LIRC working with Myth, verify that it still works
when your keyboard stops responding, and you'll know it's a focus
problem. Then you can try Ratpoison (not rat poison). If even the
native LIRC stops responding, then we /know/ it's not just a focus issue.
> Please please help I beg you my housemates will force me to install
> windows and I may have to turn to the rat poison after all.
Yeah. I think if forced to use Windows, rat poison is a better solution
than Ratpoison--even if someone were to port the WM to Windows.
Mike
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