From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EvSza-00028u-Re for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 05:21:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k085JSh5031860; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 05:19:28 GMT Received: from bullet.espersunited.com (24-117-226-93.cpe.cableone.net [24.117.226.93]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k085HTbS004681 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 05:17:29 GMT Received: from camille.espersunited.com (camille.espersunited.com [192.168.1.3]) by bullet.espersunited.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k085HSFu009745 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:17:28 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend) From: Michael Sullivan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20060107195002.7f9200f9@chi.speakeasy.net> References: <1135878795.9187.17.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <1135904790.9334.1.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <1135980482.11114.12.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <20051230193033.4c9f126c@chi.speakeasy.net> <1136011206.11068.1.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <20051231091827.4db53412@chi.speakeasy.net> <1136154629.9572.4.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <1136155627.3028.3.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <1136156252.3686.2.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <20060101174719.0a21e8de@chi.speakeasy.net> <20060101192012.7dce0470@chi.speakeasy.net> <1136680929.9948.4.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <20060107195002.7f9200f9@chi.speakeasy.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:17:27 -0600 Message-Id: <1136697447.10009.2.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5e34d8d8-ac64-4612-8cce-a91c26691026 X-Archives-Hash: a81fea18fedbef72890474cc82ea6723 On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 19:50 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:42:09 -0600 > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > As I said, I tried setting up the evilwm stuff from the MythTV section > > on the Gentoo wiki. I ran kdm and selected "Custom" and logged in as my > > test user. The screen cleared and then it spit me back out at the kdm > > login screen. I looked at /var/log/kdm.log and everything looks normal > > to me: > > > > You didn't do anything wrong. And I'm not sure why it's kicking you back out. In > my case, I run XDM and use Enlightenment as the window manager. With both > being defined in /etc/rc.conf. > > Mythfrontend does run fine with that combo. > > One thing I note is the backend is still telling you that mythsetup hasn't been run to > attach a channel to the port and to the rest of the setup. That step is not detailed in > the wiki. You need to assign the those via mythsetup, before running the front end > > Surf to - http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html and scroll down to jusr > passed the STOP sign, and work through - Mythtv-setup. > > Bob > - I tried the test "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg" and opening it in mplayer and all I got was the blank screen. I tried it with /dev/video24 and got static and with /dev/video32 I got weird polygonal images. I think mythfrontend is freezing up after that 1.5 seconds because it takes awhile to get back to the menu screen. Why is /dev/video spitting out nothing now, when it was just fine before I followed the mythtv howto? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list