Re: [ubuntu-uk] MythTV

2009-11-24 Thread Norman Silverstone
 snip 

 Sounds like either the mythbackend has started up and been unable to use the 
 capture cards, or something weird has happened with the backend. 
 
 Give mythbackend a restart and try again, if that does work try clearing out 
 your capture cards and re-add them to the video source, channels are bound 
 to the video source so don't worry about losing the channels.

Thanks for your response. I seem to have solved most of the problem by
doing as you suggest and then I did a re-scan. There have clearly been
some changes to the way menu items are presented since I last played
with the backend and I am not at all clear what to do when I am asked to
chose numbers for some channels. Still, I expect I will work it out
given time.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] MythTV

2009-11-23 Thread Neil Perry
Have you ran mythtv backend setup to double check the inputs are all
correct? If something never works, try re-configuring.
Neil Perry


2009/11/23 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org

 When I try to run a TV programme I get an error message:- 'MythTV is
 using all inputs, but there are no active recordings?' I cannot recall
 ever seeing this message before I changed to Ubuntu 9.10 and I would be
 grateful if someone could suggest a solution. I have looked on Google
 but do not understand what is being suggested.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-08-23 Thread Norman Silverstone
 snip 

 
 Last time I played with setting MythTV up, I purged all the packages,
 and re-installed all the MythTV stuff. I followed a guide I found
 on-line, and configured it to use the transmitted guide instead of the
 Radio Times. It worked much better this time. The previous time, I had
 to manually hack the MySQL database to get the channels setup. This
 time, it 'just worked'.

Perhaps I should follow your path and purge all the packages and
re-install. What do you suggest would be the best procedure to adopt to
get the best result?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-08-22 Thread Rob Beard
Norman Silverstone wrote:
 Television in my area has now become digital only and MythTV needs to be
 re-set to the new transmission. When I try to access the setup from
 Administration - MythTV Backend Setup the process starts by asking for
 any mythbackend processes to be closed. I click OK, enter my password,
 the closing process starts and then hangs. A window labelled
 mythtv-setup.real opens having within it a large, solid, black rectangle
 and a smaller rectangle which lists what is going on. The last entries
 suggest that there is an error to do with a Joystick disabled and a
 failure to read /home/norman/.mythtv/joystickmenurc. This is then
 followed by a list of entries such as:-

 X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
   Major opcode: 2
   Minor opcode: 0
   Resource id: 0x40e

 Google has not helped so, as a last resort, I turn to the list for
 guidance and advice.

 Norman


   
Not really sure to be honest, when I last setup MythTV we'd already 
switched to Digital (Beacon Hill transmitter in the South West).  If no 
one can help on here you could be well worth checking out the MythTV 
mailing list, they are a really knowledgeable bunch.
  You can find it here: http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users/

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-08-22 Thread Norman Silverstone

  Television in my area has now become digital only and MythTV needs to be
  re-set to the new transmission. When I try to access the setup from
  Administration - MythTV Backend Setup the process starts by asking for
  any mythbackend processes to be closed. I click OK, enter my password,
  the closing process starts and then hangs. A window labelled
  mythtv-setup.real opens having within it a large, solid, black rectangle
  and a smaller rectangle which lists what is going on. The last entries
  suggest that there is an error to do with a Joystick disabled and a
  failure to read /home/norman/.mythtv/joystickmenurc. This is then
  followed by a list of entries such as:-
 
  X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
Major opcode: 2
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x40e
 
  Google has not helped so, as a last resort, I turn to the list for
  guidance and advice.
 

 Not really sure to be honest, when I last setup MythTV we'd already 
 switched to Digital (Beacon Hill transmitter in the South West).  If no 
 one can help on here you could be well worth checking out the MythTV 
 mailing list, they are a really knowledgeable bunch.
   You can find it here: http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users/
 
Thanks for the pointer to the MythTV mailing list I will follow it up.
Incidentally, the changes to my local transmitter has meant that
digiboxes etc have also had to be re-set.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-08-22 Thread Rob Beard
Norman Silverstone wrote:

 Thanks for the pointer to the MythTV mailing list I will follow it up.
 Incidentally, the changes to my local transmitter has meant that
 digiboxes etc have also had to be re-set.

 Norman
   
No problem, I haven't used MythTV in a while since the PC it was running 
on failed.  I must get it sorted out :-)

I found that after the switchover it was fairly painless to rescan the 
boxes, one of the boxes did put channels in an odd order and my old 
OnDigital box no longer worked.

I also found that my Freeview card which before the switchover wouldn't 
pick up any of the ITV channels, now picks up all the ITV channels but 
not the BBC channels!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-08-22 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/8/22 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
 Norman Silverstone wrote:

 Thanks for the pointer to the MythTV mailing list I will follow it up.
 Incidentally, the changes to my local transmitter has meant that
 digiboxes etc have also had to be re-set.

 Norman

 No problem, I haven't used MythTV in a while since the PC it was running
 on failed.  I must get it sorted out :-)

 I found that after the switchover it was fairly painless to rescan the
 boxes, one of the boxes did put channels in an odd order and my old
 OnDigital box no longer worked.

 I also found that my Freeview card which before the switchover wouldn't
 pick up any of the ITV channels, now picks up all the ITV channels but
 not the BBC channels!

Our local transmitter (Rowridge) is not due ti fully switch over until
2012. Until then, it is on only 10% power for the digital signal, and
they have a number of times moved things about meaning channels come
and go.

Last time I played with setting MythTV up, I purged all the packages,
and re-installed all the MythTV stuff. I followed a guide I found
on-line, and configured it to use the transmitted guide instead of the
Radio Times. It worked much better this time. The previous time, I had
to manually hack the MySQL database to get the channels setup. This
time, it 'just worked'.

Hopefully I will not have to touch it again until 2012 when we get the
full 200kw signal, and then I should be able to get rid of the signal
booster. :-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-28 Thread Tony Travis
Mark Fraser wrote:
 [...]
 I find it easier in cases like this to simply rename 70-persistant-cd.rules as
 70-persistant-cd.rules~ and reboot, Ubuntu will create a new set of rules when
 it discovers the file missing.

Hello, Mark.

Good advice - I should have thought of suggesting that, because I also 
delete all entries from the 70-persistent-net.rules file for the same 
reason when I change NIC's or change motherboards with on-board NIC's.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-28 Thread norman

  [...]
  I find it easier in cases like this to simply rename 70-persistant-cd.rules 
  as
  70-persistant-cd.rules~ and reboot, Ubuntu will create a new set of rules 
  when
  it discovers the file missing.
 
 Hello, Mark.
 
 Good advice - I should have thought of suggesting that, because I also 
 delete all entries from the 70-persistent-net.rules file for the same 
 reason when I change NIC's or change motherboards with on-board NIC's.
 

This seems to be an excellent idea but, please remember, that you are
dealing with an elderly rookie as far as things like this are concerned.
However, I can follow instructions so if you would be kind enough to
tell me the magic words I will do the rest.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-28 Thread Mark Fraser
On Thursday 28 May 2009 12:03:16 norman wrote:
   [...]
   I find it easier in cases like this to simply rename
   70-persistant-cd.rules as 70-persistant-cd.rules~ and reboot, Ubuntu
   will create a new set of rules when it discovers the file missing.
 
  Hello, Mark.
 
  Good advice - I should have thought of suggesting that, because I also
  delete all entries from the 70-persistent-net.rules file for the same
  reason when I change NIC's or change motherboards with on-board NIC's.

 This seems to be an excellent idea but, please remember, that you are
 dealing with an elderly rookie as far as things like this are concerned.
 However, I can follow instructions so if you would be kind enough to
 tell me the magic words I will do the rest.

 Nor5man

cd /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo mv 70-persistent-cd.rules 70-persistent-cd.rules~

reboot

change 70-persistent-cd.rules for 70-persistent-net.rules if you want to check 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-28 Thread norman

  [...]
  I find it easier in cases like this to simply rename 70-persistant-cd.rules 
  as
  70-persistant-cd.rules~ and reboot, Ubuntu will create a new set of rules 
  when
  it discovers the file missing.
 
 Hello, Mark.
 
 Good advice - I should have thought of suggesting that, because I also 
 delete all entries from the 70-persistent-net.rules file for the same 
 reason when I change NIC's or change motherboards with on-board NIC's.

The point is that I have not changed any hardware for ages so, is it
possible that Ubuntu decided to change the name of DVD drive from
dev/dvd to dev/dvd1? If that is the case then would the above procedure
work or just put things back as they are?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-28 Thread norman
Thank you Mark and thank you Tony for both your patience and advice. I
followed the instructions and the magic worked.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-28 Thread Tony Travis
norman wrote:
 Thank you Mark and thank you Tony for both your patience and advice. I
 followed the instructions and the magic worked.

Hello, Norman.

I'm glad that we were able to help :-)

Bye,

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Sean Miller
could it be duff media?

what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread norman

 could it be duff media?

I don't think so.
 
 what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD?

It plays, no problem.
 

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Sean Miller
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:32 PM, norman nor...@littletank.org wrote:
 what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD?

 It plays, no problem.

Surely then the device must exist?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Rob Beard
Sean Miller wrote:
 On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:32 PM, norman nor...@littletank.org wrote:
   
 what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD?
   
 It plays, no problem.
 

 Surely then the device must exist?

 Sean
   
Does normal DVD burning work (for instance in K3B or Brasero) work okay?

I take it you're also running MythTV as the first user which you specified?

(Although I gather looking at the permissions, if the user isn't in the 
cdrom group then it possibly wouldn't be able to read DVDs either).

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread norman

  what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD?
 
  It plays, no problem.
 
 Surely then the device must exist?

On the face of it you must be correct. I have been reading to find a
solution and opened a terminal and tried ls -l /dev/dvd. There was no
response so I tried with /dev/dvd1 with the following result:-

nor...@gruber:~$ ls -l /dev/dvd1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-05-25 16:31 /dev/dvd1 - scd0
nor...@gruber:~$ 

Is this any help to sorting things out. I use the terminal from time to
time but I am never sure what things mean but I am learning.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread James Milligan
 From my limited knowledge as well, the lwrx business is the  
permissions for that drive. I think that that string means you have  
full permissions.

Sorry if I'm wrong lol

James

On 27 May 2009, at 20:04, norman nor...@littletank.org wrote:


 what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD?

 It plays, no problem.

 Surely then the device must exist?

 On the face of it you must be correct. I have been reading to find a
 solution and opened a terminal and tried ls -l /dev/dvd. There was no
 response so I tried with /dev/dvd1 with the following result:-

 nor...@gruber:~$ ls -l /dev/dvd1
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-05-25 16:31 /dev/dvd1 - scd0
 nor...@gruber:~$

 Is this any help to sorting things out. I use the terminal from time  
 to
 time but I am never sure what things mean but I am learning.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Tony Travis
norman wrote:
 what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD?
 It plays, no problem.
 Surely then the device must exist?
 
 On the face of it you must be correct. I have been reading to find a
 solution and opened a terminal and tried ls -l /dev/dvd. There was no
 response so I tried with /dev/dvd1 with the following result:-
 
 nor...@gruber:~$ ls -l /dev/dvd1
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-05-25 16:31 /dev/dvd1 - scd0
 nor...@gruber:~$
 
 Is this any help to sorting things out. I use the terminal from time to
 time but I am never sure what things mean but I am learning.

Hello, Norman.

You might find an answer to your question in:

   /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules

This keeps track of the CD/DVD drives that have been detected on your 
system: If you upgrade your CD/DVD drive, or connect it differently, the 
udev system will then create a symbolic link for the new drive when it 
is detected and add it to the file. I suspect that your /dev/dvd1 was 
created automatically by udev after one of your upgrades.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread norman

  
  On the face of it you must be correct. I have been reading to find a
  solution and opened a terminal and tried ls -l /dev/dvd. There was no
  response so I tried with /dev/dvd1 with the following result:-
  
  nor...@gruber:~$ ls -l /dev/dvd1
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-05-25 16:31 /dev/dvd1 - scd0
  nor...@gruber:~$
  
  Is this any help to sorting things out. I use the terminal from time to
  time but I am never sure what things mean but I am learning.

 
 You might find an answer to your question in:
 
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules
 
 This keeps track of the CD/DVD drives that have been detected on your 
 system: If you upgrade your CD/DVD drive, or connect it differently, the 
 udev system will then create a symbolic link for the new drive when it 
 is detected and add it to the file. I suspect that your /dev/dvd1 was 
 created automatically by udev after one of your upgrades.

I suppose it would help if I understood what it was all about. Forgive
me but I am not very bright about these things. However, let's assume
that something has changed but the software I am using doesn't know that
and, therefore, is still looking for the old /dev/dvd. Is it possible to
put into the appropriate place an instruction which will allow the
software to find the dvd drive?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Tony Travis
norman wrote:
 [...]
 I suppose it would help if I understood what it was all about. Forgive
 me but I am not very bright about these things. However, let's assume
 that something has changed but the software I am using doesn't know that
 and, therefore, is still looking for the old /dev/dvd. Is it possible to
 put into the appropriate place an instruction which will allow the
 software to find the dvd drive?

Hello, Norman.

The 'old' /dev/dvd was a symbolic link created when you originally 
installed Ubuntu. The Ubuntu installer detects your hardware, and sets 
your /dev directory up accordingly. However, every time you boot Ubuntu 
it checks to see if anything has changed. If it has, udev remembers 
the old device in case you use it again, and creates a new symbolic link 
for any new devices it detects when you boot - In your case /dev/dvd1.

The place where udev stores this 'persistent' information is:

   /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules

You can edit this file to make udev point /dev/dvd at your drive if 
you want. However, it might be a bit confusing if you've not done this 
sort of thing before. My advice is to have a look at the file anyway, 
and see if you can work out what happened to your /dev/dvd. If you post 
the contents of the file here, we might be able to help you work it out.

Bye,

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Mark Fraser
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:53:16 Tony Travis wrote:
 norman wrote:
  [...]
 
  I suppose it would help if I understood what it was all about. Forgive
  me but I am not very bright about these things. However, let's assume
  that something has changed but the software I am using doesn't know that
  and, therefore, is still looking for the old /dev/dvd. Is it possible to
  put into the appropriate place an instruction which will allow the
  software to find the dvd drive?

 Hello, Norman.

 The 'old' /dev/dvd was a symbolic link created when you originally
 installed Ubuntu. The Ubuntu installer detects your hardware, and sets
 your /dev directory up accordingly. However, every time you boot Ubuntu
 it checks to see if anything has changed. If it has, udev remembers
 the old device in case you use it again, and creates a new symbolic link
 for any new devices it detects when you boot - In your case /dev/dvd1.

 The place where udev stores this 'persistent' information is:

/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules

 You can edit this file to make udev point /dev/dvd at your drive if
 you want. However, it might be a bit confusing if you've not done this
 sort of thing before. My advice is to have a look at the file anyway,
 and see if you can work out what happened to your /dev/dvd. If you post
 the contents of the file here, we might be able to help you work it out.

I find it easier in cases like this to simply rename 70-persistant-cd.rules as 
70-persistant-cd.rules~ and reboot, Ubuntu will create a new set of rules when 
it discovers the file missing.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] MythTV Hardware

2007-09-27 Thread Anders Jacobsen
Darren check out the following websites:

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2176025602905109829hl=en
http://fiire.com/

Kind regards,
Anders

On 9/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello all,

 I've consulted the MythTV wiki and got some ideas but I was wondering if
 anyone else had any experience with getting a MythTV 'house' set up.

 I'm going to be moving very soon and I've got a 50 Samsung plasma
 planned with a MythTV front end set-top-box type PC connected to it.

 Then I want small LCD panels in the kitchen / other rooms etc to be able
 to access the recorded video / media / live tv etc. I know this won't be
 possible unless I have a PC connected to the TVs so I will have to make
 do with normal digital reception on these... unless I can find a cheap
 media extender than supports MythTV. Anyone heard of one?

 I know that when I turn the main TV and the Myth front-end PC it can't
 take long for TV to appear otherwise it will get very infuriating very
 quickly. This means I have to get hardware that supports ACPI perfectly
 so Ubuntu ACPI will work with it and I can keep doing standby/resume
 every time I want to watch TV/turn it off. Can anyone recommend a decent
 barebones / mainboard / whole set up that will work this way? It has to
 be very quiet too. I don't really want anything louder than my Wii so
 about 20dB is my max noise.

 I'm just looking for ideas and personal experiences TBH and any input
 would be appreciated. This seems to be something everyone is trying to
 do at the moment and getting some info together may be a good idea.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] MythTV with Nova-T 500 Dual card [was: Dells with Ubuntu]

2007-05-31 Thread Eamonn Sullivan
On 5/31/07, Pete Ryland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 31/05/07, Eamonn Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On 5/30/07, Pete Ryland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   contains a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual card which is not 100% working in
   Linux yet.
 
  Interesting point. I was looking carefully at their dual-tuner
  offering, since they're selling it for probably less than it would
  cost me to build one. But I don't want to buy something that doesn't
  work. Can you be more specific about what's not working right now with
  those tuner cards?

 It's implemented in hardware as a pci device containing a usb hub with
 two tuners.  There's a bug in the kernel usb-core code which causes
 kernel oopsen under certain conditions!  While the oops was fixed (in
 the latest v4l-dvb, which you'll have to compile yourself from
 Mercurial), it can still get the usb disconnect event randomly or just
 fail to read from or write to the device.  Turning off EIT (which
 contains program information encoded in the stream itself) seems to
 reduce the frequency of the failures, but it is still remarkably
 flakey even then.  Restarting myth-backend (and sometimes reloading
 the modules) is necessary to get it working again.  Rather annoying if
 you had set it to record stuff while away on holiday or something!

 So, basically it works well, but will stop working randomly from time
 to time, and can still sometimes cause a kernel oops.

Hmm... occassional kernel oops isn't want you want from an appliance.
Thanks for the info. Maybe i'll stick with my plan to build one (I
would have used a faster processor, and maybe latest Intel motherboard
graphics to avoid the proprietary drivers) and use an older, more
supported TV card.

-Eamonn

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mythtv installation help?

2006-10-25 Thread STONE COLD
ok ill try that...is it just a matter of copyinhg and pasting all that info 
in the terminal window??

another question is once mythtv is installed can it still be used as a 
standalone media centre? or can it still be used as a normal desktop pc?

thanks


From: Michael Hoertnagl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mythtv installation help?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:13:46 +0200

STONE COLD wrote:
  Hi,
 
  Now that i have tvtime working i thought it was maybe a good idea to 
move on
  to Mythtv.
  I have scouted the web and uunfortunately have been unable to find 
anything
  that helps someone like me ( i have no knowledge of linux, ubuntu is my
  first try at linux).
 
  Therefore can someone please help me setting up this beast of an
  application??
 
  Regards
  Javad
 
 
 
There is a pretty good thread @ ubuntuforums:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186747

cheers
mtron


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mythtv installation help?

2006-10-24 Thread Michael Hoertnagl
STONE COLD wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Now that i have tvtime working i thought it was maybe a good idea to move on 
 to Mythtv.
 I have scouted the web and uunfortunately have been unable to find anything 
 that helps someone like me ( i have no knowledge of linux, ubuntu is my 
 first try at linux).
 
 Therefore can someone please help me setting up this beast of an 
 application??
 
 Regards
 Javad
 
 
 
There is a pretty good thread @ ubuntuforums:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186747

cheers
mtron


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