Okay I have my master backend setup and working. I can launch mythfrontend there if I want and watch live tv (on my 14" CRT Monitor), schedule recordings.. etc..

I'm now trying to configure a frontend only machine that will have a ATI wonder and displaying on the tv, remote hooked up to it only. Everything seems to be working.. (remote, frontend launches on boot, tv out), except I havn't been able to watch live tv from the front end... Screen goes black and then back to the main menu for me.

I know this setup works, because I can launch knoppmyth frontend from the CD and watch tv through this machine. But I want to install the frontend permanently on the 40 gb hard drive on this computer.

Anyone have any ideas on why this is happening? which logs would I check? (please provide the exact code to enter in the terminal, I'm still kind of new to linux).

BTW, I followed this guide to install the frontend only portion.
http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... nlyInstall

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I had a similar problem and I don't know why, but mysql security seemed to fix this issue, as well as a few others. See this article, and towards the bottom the topic of security comes up and how to set it according to your needs:

[url]
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html [/url]

The other fix is commenting out the bind address in your /etc/mysql/my.cnf file. By default it is binding to the local address of 127.0.0.1 and can be fixed by commenting out the line, or changing the address to that of your local ip address.

However, if you change the bind address to that of your ip address, you will need to do one of the steps (think IP-based) mentioned in the above reference howto.

I know for some folks, simply commenting out the bind address was enough. For myself though, I had to go into mysql and use the ip based security before everything started working properly.

Now, to get my PVR-150 RC6 remote to working.

Hope this is helpful.

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Is the frontend connecting to the backend?

I am able to connect, I can find my recordings but I am unable to view my recordings either.

I did see a file not found message for live tiv, so I think it is related to mysql. I'll give that a try.

Probably need to open another topic, but my screen resolution is way too big for my TV. It's cutting off about an inch on all sides. I'm able to go through setup and shrink the GUI and use an offset to see the whole GUI, but leaves about two inches on the bottom where I can see the knoppmyth background for fluxbox. Anybody have this issue?

I'll let you know if the mysql thing works

I get an SQL error when I try inputing the statement from that link.

$ mysql -u root mythconverg
mysql> grant all on mythconverg.* to mythtv@"192.168.1.%" identified by "mythtv";
mysql> flush privileges;

Not up to date on SQL stuff and mysql databases

Okay for ANYONE that is interested, I figured this one out. In the mythtv-setup on the 2nd screen you need to create a unique identifier for your frontend only machine. Otherwise, I think the frontend starts searching for all of the liveTV and recordings locally.. which is a problem.

I changed it and everything worked. Sweet. Now I gotta figure out my sound problem.

The sound problem can probably be fixed by adding the following statement to /etc/modprobe.conf

include /etc/modprobe.d

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Thank-you for your post! You solved my black screen issue with my brand new Shuttle Box with a brand new PCI-e vid card! I though I bought dud equipment.

Any reason why it's searching locally by default? Is it just a bug that has to be delt with in future distros?

Thanks again!

M