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

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 02:10:15 UTC 2005


On 6/29/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> 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).

Sorry for the unclear directions - I'm using 2 different cards
(PVR-350 and Nova-T) hence the multiple modprobes I mentioned. I
_tried_ to phrase it in a general manner in case the OP had different
cards, not add more confusion!

Cheers,
Nick


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