[myth-ie] new install today after three years

[Brendan Kehoe]

Adrian Smith wrote:
> Just a suggestion but would you consider using Mythbuntu? It's based 
> on Ubuntu 7.10 and might help get you around some the problems you're 
> having. I installed it recently 
> (http://www.17od.com/2007/10/26/installing-mythbuntu-710/) and found 
> it quite straight forward.

That was my initial intent, but part of what I wanted to do was set up 
two disks using RAID so we won't lose everything we've recorded if a 
disk overheats/siezes up.  The mythbuntu 7.10 installer doesn't have 
anything in place for doing RAID, and I stopped myself after wrestling 
with trying to use mdadm and the rest at the command line during the 
install.  (e.g., the drives are hda and hdc, and no matter what I tried 
it claimed hdc couldn't be modified---even by fdisk to change the 
partition table---because it was in use, but I couldn't for the life of 
me find any evidence of that.)

That's what pushed me to try the server-then-addmyth approach.

I realize now there's a slight chance mythbuntu's installer saw one of 
the partitions was a swap partition and added it (I'm guessing anything 
now).  Maybe later I'll boot back up with the mythbuntu CD and see if 
it's more willing now that I've already created the partitions for 
software RAID and it's less obvious which is swap.

Thanks for the sympathy,
B

>
> Adrian
>
> On 15/03/2008, *Brendan Kehoe* <brendan at zen.org 
> <mailto:brendan at zen.org>> wrote:
>
>     Brendan Kehoe wrote:
>     > No luck yet, I'm stuck trying to get the PVR350's tv-out to display
>     > properly.  I get the impression there may be issues with using
>     it with
>     > Gutsy (7.10), but I sure hope not.
>     >
>
>
>     How disheartening.  I've lost the day to not getting tv-out to work
>     properly.
>
>     One strange lead was discovering I need to do (using a new command
>     v4l2-ctl) the step
>        /usr/bin/v4l2-ctl -s pal-i --set-fbuf=global_alpha=0,local_alpha=1
>     after I've loaded the saa7127 driver in order for it to display
>     properly.
>
>     That works if I want to do
>       cat foo.mpeg > /dev/video16
>
>     Both sound and video work.  However, I'm still failing to get X to
>     come up.
>
>     (II) IVTV(0): bitsPerPixel=32, depth=24, defaultVisual=TrueColor
>             mask: ff0000,ff00,ff, offset: 16,8,0
>     (EE) IVTV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
>     (EE) IVTV(0): Mode init failed
>
>     I may try this all again on another day using etch instead of
>     7.10/gutsy.
>
>     I can't believe it's still this difficult.  BIG points lost for me...I
>     shouldn't be stuck using a 3+ year-old system because I got it to work
>     enough after pulling my hair out.
>
>
>     B
>
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