[mythtv-users] Issues with MythTV on an SS40G

[Mark L. Cukier]

This is where someone must chime in to let you know it's a bad idea not 
to have another user besides root on your machine....



Jens Lohmann-Hansen wrote:

>I have a gentoo distribution on the computer (and whatever myth version that 
>is being offered as "stable" when emerging mythtv).
>
>As a side note, I run mythtv as root - maybe a reason why I have no problems. 
>I cannot test mythtv otherwise as no other user is created on the machine.
>
>On Tuesday 15 March 2005 03:54, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
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>>On Sun Mar 13 23:02:54 UTC 2005, Jens Lohmann-Hansen wrote:
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>>>I have an SS40G running just fine with MythTV.
>>>
>>>I seem to remember that the TV output format is to be set from within
>>>the
>>>BIOS? Have you selected a proper setting? This could have influence on
>>>your
>>>black'n'white output?
>>>      
>>>
>>The B&W output is only from within xine and only when running it under
>>the mythtv user.  Even in this situation, the MythTV interface is in
>>full color and xine is in full color when run as my user.
>>
>>What distribution are you using on the system?  Would you be willing to
>>compare some application versions and configurations?
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