[mythtv-users] TV won't play unless you run mythbackend manually from a console (Success)

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Jun 29 00:50:24 UTC 2005


Nick wrote:

>On 6/28/05, Michael Jones <m_g_j at michaelandholly.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>The problem was that the command modprobe ivtv was being executed after
>>mythbackend was started.  (hmm.. what a surprise)
>>    
>>
>I run the modprobes (2 cards) and start mythbackend from rc.local (you
>could prob do it from rc.sysinit too).
>  
>
Regardless of how many PVR-x50's you have, you should only do one 
modprobe command:

modprobe ivtv

(unless you're using ivtv-0.1.9, where you have to modprobe each module 
in the right order, but that's a whole different story).

Mike



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