I'm also experimenting with mythtv on an amd64, but for now I have frontend, backend and mywql running on the same diskless machine so I don't have direct answer for you. But in my system the frontend works fine.
If memory serves (I'm on a different system now), during the emerge of mythtv qt3 library was pulled in, not qt4. That was a couple of weeks ago, at the time there was no qt3support flag yet, or I did not notice it. Maybe you could try emerging qt-3 instead of qt-4 with qt3support bye, raffaele Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm in the early stages of a complete MythTV update across my > network. I have the backend nearly working in an IA32 machine. It runs > fine but isn't getting all the channels correctly yet. In parallel > with that effort I'm trying to get the frontend working again on my > AMD64 machine. At this point I can connect to the mythconverg database > by hand: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mysql -h 192.168.1.55 -u mythtv -p mythconverg > Enter password: > Reading table information for completion of table and column names > You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A > > Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. > Your MySQL connection id is 43 > Server version: 5.0.40 Gentoo Linux mysql-5.0.40 > > Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. > > mysql> exit > Bye > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > However when I try to start the frontend it complains like this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mythfrontend --geometry 800x600 > 2007-05-14 19:56:19.577 Using runtime prefix = /usr > 2007-05-14 19:56:19.585 DPMS is active. > QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded > QSqlDatabase: available drivers: > 2007-05-14 19:56:19.595 New DB connection, total: 1 > 2007-05-14 19:56:19.595 Unable to connect to database! > 2007-05-14 19:56:19.596 No error type from QSqlError? Strange... > QSqlQuery::exec: database not open > QSqlQuery::exec: database not open > 2007-05-14 19:56:19.646 DB Error (KickDatabase): > Query was: > SELECT NULL; > No error type from QSqlError? Strange... > > > After doing some reading I find that the long time answer to this > question is compiling qt with mysql support. I believe I've done that > but it still didn't work. I noticed a new flag about qt3support so I > rebuilt qt with that turned on but it still fails to connect: > > lightning ~ # emerge -pv qt > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-4.2.3-r1 USE="cups dbus gif jpeg mysql > opengl png qt3support zlib -accessibility -debug -doc -examples > (-firebird) -glib -mng -nas -nis -odbc -pch -postgres -sqlite -sqlite3 > -xinerama" INPUT_DEVICES="-wacom" 0 kB > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB > lightning ~ # > > Is there a known problem with mythfrontend on AMD64? I'm pretty > lost for things to try right now. > > Thanks in advance for any ideas. > > Cheers, > Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
