[mythtv-users] Myth Permissions, sound and auto login

[Nick Ellson]

Hi all,

I am trying to set my MythTV frontend (also the backend) so that from a 
power on/reset it will come up and load the Mythfrontend.

I created a lowly user, told gnome to auto-login as that user. (that seems 
to work)

I have a dual output GeForce 4 (using the DMI for Myth, the CRT for 
administration) And I normally start mythfront end like this:

DISPLAY=":0.1" mythfrontend

My lowly user couldn't do that and capture the sound card. (Even the gnome 
panel audio control stays permanently muted.) So I have the user "sudo" 
start the command above. That "kinda" worked.. Watching .iso movie rips 
works fine, but LiveTV has no sound. When I run alsamixer all my outputs 
are un-muted and at high volume. The same effect with MythMusic, it sees 
all my .mp3's, but will not play any of them. My MP3 directory is 777 
even.

I am not sure if the reason I am having audio troubles is due to how I 
have my lowly user set-up. When I was just running a root account, 
everything worked (MythDVD/MythTV/MythMusic)

I have also noticed that the MythTV module has odd behavior. If I have shows
in the program queue ready to record, and I add one, I no longer see ANY 
of them. I have to drop the back-end and restart it, then my previous 
programs and my new one show up. If I am watching LIVE TV and I hit 
record, that taping works, but never shows up in the "Previously 
Recorded" list of shows, again until I restart Mythbackend.

I would like to keep the auto login idea so my family doesn't have to mess 
with Linux. If I try to start the frontend before the GDM desktop is up, 
it fails to get my DISPLAY=":0.1" (as that display is still the B&W Xorg 
cross-hatching.)

I am sorry if I have posted unrelated problems, but just in case all are 
related in an obvious way I thought it might help.

Has anyone done the auto-login method using GDM that would share how you 
set it up?

Nick





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Nick Ellson
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