On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 19:50 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:42:09 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
