[mythtv-users] problem trying to watch TV

[Ian Goldberg]

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 09:20:04 -0500, Michael J. Sherman wrote:


> Hi all,
> 
> Whenever I try to watch TV using MythTV it just hangs.  I have an ATI TV
> card which works just fine under XawTV.  I get the following output when
> I attempt to run mythtv:
> 
> $ mythtv
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Television
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite1
> Changing from None to WathingLiveTV
> 
> And then it just freezes.  What could be wrong?  I ran the setup program
> and everything seemed fine.  I can run the mythfrontend app and look at
> the program schedule, but that's about it.  When I try to listen to
> music it crashes, too.  Seems like I'm just in a world of hurt here. I'm
> using RedHat 8.0.

Some other program is using /dev/dsp.  Possibly "esd".  Kill it.

   - Ian