Re: [gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: On 28/02/2011 22:06, Hamilton Silva wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some old hardware. Now I've been tasked with finding something small that can sit by their TV and do it all. I've been looking at MiniITX machines with the nVidia ION chipset that support 720/1080 HD playback and HDMI outputs. My questions are concerning the digital output and remote controls. I've only ever used HDMI/digital output on windows and it confuses me then. Is there some added complexity to getting the HDMI output working (including audio) with a TV? Is there anything to look out for as far as compatibiliy goes? And remote controls, the USB DVB-T unit comes with its own remote and pretty much works out of the box even on linux. At least it works for the basic up/down/left/right/enter, I really don't know enough to get any more out of it. The MiniITX bundle I'm looking at comes with a remote designed for media centres and looks to be a million times nicer than the one from the receiver, but is there going to be a lot of trouble getting it working with Lirc? I only know a teeny tiny bit about Lirc, I don't know what driver this remote will use so I don't know if there's likely to be any compatibility issue. As you can tell I'm not very hot on this stuff, so any tips/help/suggestions would be much appreciated. I'd especially appreciate if anyone could point to some known-good hardware for this purpose. Thanks Matt For the remote i suggest the ps3 bd controller. It uses bluetooth so, it's omnidirectional and works with mythtv: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sony_PS3_BD_Remote Hamilton That looks interesting, thanks for the reply. I guess I'll have to find a bluetooth receiver to go with it, maybe i can find one onboard something. Thanks You can find some bluetooth usb dongle for about $2-4 at dealextreme or ebay. Hamilton
Re: [gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some old hardware. Now I've been tasked with finding something small that can sit by their TV and do it all. I've been looking at MiniITX machines with the nVidia ION chipset that support 720/1080 HD playback and HDMI outputs. My questions are concerning the digital output and remote controls. I've only ever used HDMI/digital output on windows and it confuses me then. Is there some added complexity to getting the HDMI output working (including audio) with a TV? Is there anything to look out for as far as compatibiliy goes? And remote controls, the USB DVB-T unit comes with its own remote and pretty much works out of the box even on linux. At least it works for the basic up/down/left/right/enter, I really don't know enough to get any more out of it. The MiniITX bundle I'm looking at comes with a remote designed for media centres and looks to be a million times nicer than the one from the receiver, but is there going to be a lot of trouble getting it working with Lirc? I only know a teeny tiny bit about Lirc, I don't know what driver this remote will use so I don't know if there's likely to be any compatibility issue. As you can tell I'm not very hot on this stuff, so any tips/help/suggestions would be much appreciated. I'd especially appreciate if anyone could point to some known-good hardware for this purpose. Thanks Matt For the remote i suggest the ps3 bd controller. It uses bluetooth so, it's omnidirectional and works with mythtv: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sony_PS3_BD_Remote Hamilton
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: cut replacement with bash builtins
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:01:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
Hi list!
I'm currently streamlining some of my shell scripts to avoid
unnecessary
process calls where bash itself is powerful enough.
My experience (take it for whatever you think it's worth) is that
doing so often just makes things harder to follow and maintain.
It's very unlikely that the overhead of a fork+exec is appreciably
slowing your process down. Having said that (and in that vein) there
is something more straightforward which may be useful:
[...]
My current solution is using two string operations:
string='foo:bar:foo'
# remove everything up to and including first ':'
second_and_following=${string#*:}
# remove everything from the first ':' following
second_field=${second_and_following%%:*}
second_field = $(echo $string | awk -F: '{print $2}')
--
Jon Hamilton
hamil...@pobox.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Calendar applications
Take a look at osmo http://clayo.org/osmo/. Regards Hamilton
[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in 10+ yrs.. Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. So I'm back in the soup. [I hope what I try to layout below is not overly confusing] (After install of gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r4) Just checking - but you didn't mention: did you copy the .config to the new kernel src directory? If not, that would certainly explain the disparity in configuration settings you're seeing. I started with `make oldconfig' Moved from that to `make menuconfig'... -- Jon Hamilton hamil...@pobox.com
[gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
On Wed, April 8, 2009 07:10, Dale wrote: KH wrote: Dale schrieb: Hi, I have ran into a problem here. When I go to http://wireless.att.com/ Seamonkey crashes. It does this pretty fast even tho I am on a slow [ KH can't reproduce, using Seamonkey 1.15 ] I can't reproduce that either; the site loads/works fine for me. The site does use flash; perhaps it's a problem there? It might be worth turning on flashblock or otherwise disabling flash. Another suggestion would be to try it from a shell with a different home directory, to take your .mozilla out of the mix (you could mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old temporarily, or just do HOME=/tmp seamonkey http://mobile.att.com so it won't find your .mozilla directory and will start fresh/clean. Based on your memory and swap usage, it doesn't look to me like that's the issue. -- Jon Hamilton hamil...@pobox.com
