[myth-ie] ditching Mythbuntu, trying MythDora 4

[Glen Gray]

Ah the joys of juggling a family and technology fetish.

I'm in a similar boat. My mini-itx setup has been playing up since  
late January and I can't seem to get the time to have a good run at  
diagnosing the problem. I could well need new hardware, but I can't  
make that call until I've tried a few things (box hard hangs after a  
short period of time).

I originally hay Mythdora on there, was going to try Mythbuntu this  
time around.
--
Glen Gray
slaine at slaine.org




On 15 Mar 2008, at 21:57, Brendan Kehoe wrote:

> 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
>
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