[mythtv-users] mythtvsetup hangs

[RParr]

Jon A Chamberlain wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> (mythtv) First-timer building his first serious Linux machine..!
>  
> I'm running Mythtv 0.20 on Fedora Core 5 as per the howto on Jarod 
> Wilson's site. I have an Hauppage 150 card, with TV out on a separate 
> nVidia card.
>  
> All goes well (apart from errors caused by me), until I get to 
> mythtvsetup.
>  
> It loads the main menu, and as I'm going through the General screens, 
> it hangs the system - alt-tab or Esc don't respond - not even 
> ctrl-alt-del works. Bummer.
>  
> Any suggestions? 
>  

I had a similar problem which appears to have happened because my 
Hauppage ivtv driver was not installed correctly.  Once I got the driver 
modules AND firmware loading correctly, the mythsetup hang went away.

R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts