[myth-ie] ditching Mythbuntu, trying MythDora 4

[Brendan Kehoe]

After happening upon the blog at

  http://www.ninjax.net/blog/?p=11

I'm going to give MythDora a try, in hope it'll result in something a
bit more happy than what I've experienced with Mythbuntu 7.10.  My
motivation is in part driven by the comments at

    http://www.ubuntu-forums.net/showthread.php?t=615070&page=2

    ...
    When gutsy was released, no one had yet tested the pvr 350 output.
    There are two issues that were then discovered. The first is that
    you need to install the xorg driver. That package is available on
    the ppa. The next issues is that the pvr 350 api changed within
    mythtv. You need to install the package on gutsy proposed to get
    around this issue. Eventually this package will be copied over to
    gutsy updates. If you are not getting it to work after using the
    package on gutsy proposed, and installing the x driver from the ppa,
    then you are configuring it incorrectly.

I've killed myself making sure I've configured the living crap out of
it, so I think there's actually a problem between the ivtv driver and
the Xorg version using it.

The MythDora installer recognized and used correctly the three RAID
arrays (/, swap, and /video) I created before, so that certainly bodes
well.  And it took very little time to get it to the point where it's
now happily formatting those three array filesystems and going ahead
with the install.  It'll be a little tedious popping in the second CD,
but that will still be faster than the bucketload of downloads Mythbuntu
needed.

I've got it going now and will probably collapse soon and finish
tomorrow sometime, depending on whether my 6 year-old is able to play
with his friends on the road or not.  :-)

I was this  -> . <-   close to popping out the new disks and sticking in
the old one in a gesture of Fuck It All.  But then I realized I'd just
have to go through all my preparation efforts (dumping the mysql
database contents, syncing up various files, etc).  And my wife's making
a big deal of how we're forced to be Common(tm) and actually flip around
to find something to watch.  hehehe.

Our youngest was awake at 3am last night and he and I came down for the
first time to watch TV that wasn't already recorded and waiting for us. 
He went to bed at 4am after watching Star Trek: The Next Generation and
some BBC News 24 crap.  New experiences. :-)

B