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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
