[mythtv-users] Jarod's mythpowerbutton.sh & ivtv

[Timothy McFadden]

That was exactly it.  Thanks!

-Tim

On 9/15/05, John Harvey <john.p.harvey at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Are you sure it locks up. I believe it will leave the
> alpha value set so that you don't see any X-windows
> stuff until the alpha is restored but it shouldn't
> lock up.
> Restoring the alpha is trivial by adding
> 
> ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -alpha 255
> 
> to the end of the script.
> 
> John
> 
> --- Timothy McFadden <mcfadden.timothy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > I installed MythTV a while back with Jarod's FC3
> > guide.  Part of his
> > "Tips 'n' Tricks" is a shell script to kill
> > mythfrontend from the
> > remote.
> >
> > This script works fine, however when ivtv-dec is
> > decoding a program
> > and mythfrontend gets killed, the decoder locks up.
> > The only way that
> > I know of to fix the lock up is to reboot.  I
> > believe this is a know
> > bug ( sort of, it's known to happen with
> > mythfrontend crashes which is
> > almost the same thing ).
> >
> > Does anyone have a fix or know where I could find
> > the info to adjust
> > the script so it kills the ivtv decoder "nicely"?
> > The WAF has peaked
> > and started to decline because of this.
> >
> > I'm using Myth 0.18, ivtv 0.3.7k ( from RPM ), and a
> > PVR-350 w/ TV Out.
> >
> > Here's Jarod's script ( also @
> > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php ):
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > PROG=mythfrontend
> > STATUS=`ps -e | grep $PROG | grep -v grep | wc -l |
> > awk '{print $1}'`
> >
> > if [ `echo $DISPLAY | grep -c ":0"` -ge 1 ]
> > then
> >     if [ $STATUS -eq 0 ]
> >     then
> >         ( $PROG & )
> >     else
> >         killall $PROG
> >     fi
> > fi
> > exit 0
> >
> > -Tim
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