[mythtv-users] How to apt-get FC3 kernel?

2005-01-09 Thread Ellen Spertus
I'd like to upgrade to FC3, per Jarod's instructions (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#apt). When I enter: apt-get install kernel=2.6.9-1.724_FC3 I get an error: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Version ='2.6.9-1.724_FC3' for 'kernel' was not found My curr

[mythtv-users] Error with sending DMA to ivtv FB! Invalid argument

2005-01-09 Thread Mark Gardner
Weird Problem. Setup: Abit motherboard via chipset PVR 350 FC2 by Jarods Guide If i use cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg the resulting file plays fine on another computer. however when I try to use mplayer i get the following output. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# /usr/bin/mplayer /dev/video0

Re: [mythtv-users] can't find kernel#2.6.8-1.521

2005-01-09 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Jim Gifford wrote: > I have a question about that myself, When I tried to use the 2.6.9 on > FC2, everything bombed, lockup's and such. I've had a better luck on > 2.6.8 then 2.6.9 on FC2, FC3 has a lot of issues. I wish atrpms would > leave the 2.6.8 stuff online. But this is

Re: [mythtv-users] Is this a memory leak?

2005-01-09 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Don Brett wrote: > - Play live TV and memory slowly ramps up to just under maximum > available. This takes about 10 minutes. > - Leave it playing and I see memory bobbling around 4 meg under max. > - If I leave it running like this, it will eventually freeze the machine > (pre

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XBox

2005-01-09 Thread nowhere
> I've used xbmc for a while, and it works very well. > There's even work going on in the xbmx forums for a python script that > can be used as a (limited) MythTV front-end. > It allows one to schedule recordings, browse existing recordings, and > even view them, as long as their in myth's mpeg2 fo

RE: [mythtv-users] Another black border question

2005-01-09 Thread nowhere
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harry Orenstein > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 8:21 PM > To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Another black border question > > On Sunday 09 January 2005 2:38 pm, Ro

Re: [mythtv-users] can't find kernel#2.6.8-1.521

2005-01-09 Thread Jim Gifford
Phil Bridges wrote: Please note that Jarod's FC2 guide is no longer being updated, as he has moved to updating the FC3. A newer kernel has been added to ATrpms since Jarod published his guide - 2.6.9xx, which you already have installed. If you've done an ap-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, you

Re: [mythtv-users] Talking to more than one backend

2005-01-09 Thread Isaac Richards
On Sunday 09 January 2005 11:57 pm, Brad Templeton wrote: > Right now mythtv is not mature enough to give to people who are > not sophisticated computer users. They need help administering it > from somebody else, and that's why this is a useful feature. Don't see you doing terribly much to help

Re: [mythtv-users] Talking to more than one backend

2005-01-09 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:26:53PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote: > >Remember that when connecting to a remote database over an ssh tunnel, > >you will not be on port 3306. Well, not if that port is already in > >use on your own system, which it is. > > Not sure what you mean. A listener on foo:3306

[mythtv-users] SOLVED: skipping/pausing/buffer issues in MythVideo with mplayer

2005-01-09 Thread David W Davis
I'm running mythtv 0.16 on fc3 installed with Jarod's Guide. My videos are on a windows share and are mounted via Samba. Whenever I tried to watch something, I was having major skipping/buffer issues. I knew it wasn't a network issue because I could watch these files from other windows machines

Re: [mythtv-users] slightly OT: creating a video on demand library

2005-01-09 Thread David W Davis
This is exactly how I have MythVideo setup. Don't dump the raw dvd's but rip and re-encode them to xvid or divx .avi's (or any other codec and container combination you prefer) with the appropriate filename. All my files and folders are located in a single "movies" directory. You can manage how t

Re: [mythtv-users] Is this a memory leak?

2005-01-09 Thread Isaac Richards
On Sunday 09 January 2005 11:11 pm, Doug Larrick wrote: > Don Brett wrote: > > Most of my experience says this is a memory leak. Anyone have an idea > > of what to do? Thanks, > > Valgrind? And even before using something like valgrind, maybe looking at top or ps or whatnot to see if the backen

Re: [mythtv-users] Talking to more than one backend

2005-01-09 Thread Bruce Markey
Brad Templeton wrote: Right, but how do you get it to connect to the database server on other than port 3306? Is there an undocumented field in mysql.txt to set that? Not the application's business. That is the mysql server and client libraries. The my.cnf files (usually /etc/mysql/my.cnf ) has a

Re: [mythtv-users] Is this a memory leak?

2005-01-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Don Brett wrote: Most of my experience says this is a memory leak. Anyone have an idea of what to do? Thanks, Valgrind? -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/

RE: [mythtv-users] can't find kernel#2.6.8-1.521

2005-01-09 Thread Phil Bridges
> > Duh, I am certainly showing my noob-ness > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-1.11_FC2 #1 Sun Jan > 2 15:49:30 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-get install > kernel#2.6.8-1.521 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Depend

Re: [mythtv-users] Cheap, powerful, quiet, small front-end: problems getting it running!

2005-01-09 Thread Rusty McEacharn
i mentioned earlier that i had a backend machine with an i810 board and a 700 mhz celeron. i initially had knoppmyth r4v4 installed and it performed much better than fc2 which it has now. i changed so i could do some cross-compiling for the mvpmc project for the hauppauge mediamvp. the mediamvp

Re: [mythtv-users] slightly OT: creating a video on demand library

2005-01-09 Thread Matt Garman
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:30:41PM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > MythVideo can play the VOB files and, well, anything that mplayer, > xine, or any other external player can play because it just > executes a command-line to play each file. What I've done is add > the .VOB extension to MythVideo in t

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with Streamzap

2005-01-09 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Tony Howard wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 08:14 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Tony Howard wrote: Has anyone gotten a Streamzap working with a recent version of lirc? The SourceForge driver won't patch against lirc 0.7.0. I found 2 other drivers - one here: I'm using the sourceforge diff

Re: [mythtv-users] Another black border question

2005-01-09 Thread Harry Orenstein
On Sunday 09 January 2005 2:38 pm, Robin Smith wrote: > Try typing nvidia-settings on the commandline, its a little utility > that has overscan settings for the nvidia cards. There's a way to make > it load the settings at boot time but I can't remember what it is, I > think the steps are on Jarod'

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge 350 A415 Remote - lirc file

2005-01-09 Thread Harry Orenstein
On Sunday 09 January 2005 1:06 pm, Tim Knight wrote: > I just got a 350 it has a new remote a A415. The lirc.conf file seems > okay, but I was wondering if anyone had the mythtv lirc map file for > this remote? If not I will post one in a few days, but figured I would > check first. > > Thanks, T

[mythtv-users] Init ramdisk not able to find ivtv-fw-enc.bin

2005-01-09 Thread Yankee Myth
Hi - I have built my system from scratch based on Jarrod's guide as of 1/9/2005. I have a Hauppauge 350 and I am able to get the video signal alone to both input and output to the TV, but I have not yet been successful at getting X to go across the fb. I followed Jarrod's directions and created

[mythtv-users] Article about Myth in latest CPU Magazine

2005-01-09 Thread Harry Orenstein
I haven't seen a post about this, so I thought it might interest people. I just noticed this mag on the newsstand and there is a fairly lengthy article about MythTV. From skimming it it appears they have made some factual errors, but it appears to be generally positive. http://www.computerpow

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with Streamzap

2005-01-09 Thread Tony Howard
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 08:14 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > Tony Howard wrote: > > >Has anyone gotten a Streamzap working with a recent version of lirc? > >The SourceForge driver won't patch against lirc 0.7.0. I found 2 other > >drivers - one here: > > > > > I'm using the sourceforge diff against

[mythtv-users] Is this a memory leak?

2005-01-09 Thread Don Brett
I'm having a problem with mythfrontend freezing, well, actually it locks up the entire computer. It can play live TV for 30 to 120 minutes before it freezes. The same thing happens with recorded movies. It seems to be memory related. I ran the K performance monitor. Results are: - the machine

Re: [mythtv-users] USB capture

2005-01-09 Thread Matt Picker
I won't say that any of these cards work "very well" as I have never tried any of them myself. I have a usb device that I would like to try to get to work with this package because it has all the chips that are supported by this project but it isn't in it's supported list and I don't know all the

Re: [mythtv-users] slightly OT: creating a video on demand library

2005-01-09 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Matt Garman wrote: I'm not so much interesting in using MythTV for watching/recording TV as I am for using it as a music and video jukebox. I've pretty much got the music setup: I ripped all my CDs to MP3, set the ID3 tags, created playlists and installed MythMusic. Now I'm wondering how to do the

[mythtv-users] slightly OT: creating a video on demand library

2005-01-09 Thread Matt Garman
I'm not so much interesting in using MythTV for watching/recording TV as I am for using it as a music and video jukebox. I've pretty much got the music setup: I ripped all my CDs to MP3, set the ID3 tags, created playlists and installed MythMusic. Now I'm wondering how to do the same thing with

[mythtv-users] USB capture

2005-01-09 Thread Tim Sailer
Are there any USB capture devices that anyone would say work very well with Myth? I'm playing with a notebook that has plenty of power to spare, and figured it would be a fun experiment. Tim -- >> Tim Sailer

RE: [mythtv-users] can't find kernel#2.6.8-1.521

2005-01-09 Thread George Lopez
Duh, I am certainly showing my noob-ness [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-1.11_FC2 #1 Sun Jan 2 15:49:30 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-get install kernel#2.6.8-1.521 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E

Re: [mythtv-users] New to Myth, Hardware question.

2005-01-09 Thread Peter Kahle
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 20:05 -0500, Peter Kahle wrote: > I'm about ready to order some hardware for my first myth box and I want > to run the setup past the list to see if it seems sensible. First let me > Now, on to the hardware I want to use: Forgot to mention. I already have MySQL running on an

Re: [mythtv-users] Talking to more than one backend

2005-01-09 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 01:39:20PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote: > >a) Command line options on mythfrontend to say which backend to talk > > to, or perhaps more simply, which mysql.txt file to use to say which > > The files is searched for in . , $HOME/.mythtv/ then > /usr/local/share/mytht

[mythtv-users] New to Myth, Hardware question.

2005-01-09 Thread Peter Kahle
I'm about ready to order some hardware for my first myth box and I want to run the setup past the list to see if it seems sensible. First let me list my requirements: 1) Must be pretty quiet, and quite cool. It'll be in an enclosed (glass-front) cabinet under the TV, so circulation isn't great. 2)

RE: [mythtv-users] can't find kernel#2.6.8-1.521

2005-01-09 Thread Phil Bridges
> > See below. Not very informative to my eyes > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# `uname -a` > bash: Linux: command not found > > > --- Hugo van der Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, George Lopez wrote: > > > > > Thanks. Can you account for the noob factor and > > tell

[mythtv-users] mythtivo module causes mythtv 0.16 cvs to segmentation fault

2005-01-09 Thread James M. MacLaren
GG, I have got as far as you have editing the settings file shows my tivo with its ip. I dont see any shows if I select it and if I hit enter again it seg faults. I have a hard time reading the code in the module but fron what I can tell it doesnt use mplayer tivo://192.168.1.102/list to get t

Re: [mythtv-users] can't find kernel#2.6.8-1.521

2005-01-09 Thread George Lopez
See below. Not very informative to my eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# `uname -a` bash: Linux: command not found --- Hugo van der Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, George Lopez wrote: > > > Thanks. Can you account for the noob factor and > tell > > me what I have to put in

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XBox

2005-01-09 Thread Joe Votour
Wouter, See my responses inline. -- Joe --- Wouter Lagerweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 10:33 -0800, Joe Votour wrote: > > > Also, depending on the hardware revision of the > XBox > > that you get, you might get a noisy fan... I've > found > > a way to fix that, I'm j

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XBox

2005-01-09 Thread Wouter Lagerweij
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 10:33 -0800, Joe Votour wrote: > You could probably run the backend and the frontend on > the Xbox, but for most purposes, it's just not > practical. > Also, depending on the hardware revision of the XBox > that you get, you might get a noisy fan... I've found > a way to fix

[mythtv-users] Help in debugging missing channel

2005-01-09 Thread John Clegg
Hi I am having problems trying get mythtv to view a missing channel. I have configured mythtv with New Zealand settings and I am finding that I can't change channel to one of the channels. This occurs in both "Watching TV" mode and program recording. When I change channel it pauses before remai

[mythtv-users] Re: vmlinuz and rpm db4 problems (FC1, ATrpms)

2005-01-09 Thread Randy Winchester
Mike Jasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Mike, I feel for you! I just want you to know that you're not the only one with this problem recently. I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on Friday that completely blew away the FC1 installation on my laptop. It destroyed the rpm databases, removed synapti

Re: [mythtv-users] can't find kernel#2.6.8-1.521

2005-01-09 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, George Lopez wrote: > Thanks. Can you account for the noob factor and tell > me what I have to put in before > `uname -a` ? Just type the bleeding command on the prompt and see what you get. Hugo. -- I hate duplicates. Just reply to the relevant mailinglist.

Re: [mythtv-users] native lirc support?

2005-01-09 Thread Scott Alfter
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:11:29AM -0600, Paul Miller wrote: > Does mythtv have working native lirc support? Works for me with the 0.16 Gentoo ebuild. (Someone posted the location of CVS ebuilds yesterday; I need to track that down to see if it'll fix the occasional mythbackend crashes I've been

Re: [mythtv-users] can't find kernel#2.6.8-1.521

2005-01-09 Thread George Lopez
Thanks. Can you account for the noob factor and tell me what I have to put in before `uname -a` ? --- Hugo van der Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, George Lopez wrote: > > > I am having the exact same problem. The mail list > is > > not very informative on this. I tried

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Can IDE and SCSI mix?

2005-01-09 Thread Scott Alfter
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:25:41AM -0600, Greg Mitchell wrote: > I could see SATA and SCSI having problems coexisting, since Linux seems > to treat SATA and SCSI similarly. At least in Gentoo, my SATA drive > comes up as /dev/sd0. Why would they have problems coexisting? You can mix USB and Fi

Re: [mythtv-users] Talking to more than one backend

2005-01-09 Thread Bruce Markey
Brad Templeton wrote: Just a wishlist feature. After giving a mythtv box to family, I want to be able to maintain it. I can make a tunnel and run mythweb, or even phpmyadmin. But I don't want to run mythfrontend remotely for a couple of reasons. A big x application can be slow over a remote li

[mythtv-users] Auto-shutdown question

2005-01-09 Thread Drew Bernat
I'd like to configure my mythbox to automatically turn off. Noise, heat, and so on. I have a dedicated mythbox, and a second machine that serves as email/web server. I tend to use mythweb (running on the web server) to schedule shows. Obviously, if the master backend runs on the mythbox, a myt

[mythtv-users] Re: recording_options panel on theme

2005-01-09 Thread Jeff Simpson
Got it. I updated the ui.xml file in the "sleek" theme to use to include the recording_options page. I also added in the nifty color-coding of the program guide from the "blue" theme. I'm sure whoever made the themes initially will be updating them anyway, but if anybody wants a copy of my little

Re: [mythtv-users] shuttle + 2nd video card

2005-01-09 Thread Sim
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 17:49, Simon Kenyon wrote: > On Saturday 08 January 2005 15:19, Sim wrote: > > On Friday 07 Jan 2005 11:53, spok wrote: > > > 1.  With only 1 AGP and 1 PCI slots can I still get 2 > > > video capture (or tuner) cards and do picture in > > > picture?   > > > > The answer is y

[mythtv-users] MythWeb PHP error when manually scheduling a recording

2005-01-09 Thread Nick Morrott
When trying to manually schedule a recording for a radio station I do not have listings for, MythWeb seems to almost timeout, before giving me the scheduling page (/mythweb/schedule_manually.php), but with the following error at the top left of the page: Warning at /var/www/html/mythweb/themes/Def

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: nuvexport corrupts video

2005-01-09 Thread Christopher McEwan
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:32:25 -0800, Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I made the changes and installed again. It now works (Yay!) on some > > recordings > > but not others. I don't know why but some of my recordings have no > > resolution > > and these are the ones that cause the erro

RE: [mythtv-users] X over PVR-350 TV-Out on FC3

2005-01-09 Thread John Harvey
Just to clear up a few things here. 0.7 driver was broken it needs both option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1" option "ivtv" "/dev/fb1" to work. This is fixed in the 0.8 driver posted to the ivtv-dev mailing list. I have just posted a fix the the ivtv-dev mailing list for the issue that requir

Re: [mythtv-users] can't load nvidia 6106 or 6111 modules, and 6629 fails (FC3, ATrpms)

2005-01-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Mike Jasper wrote: Hi, I have blown away my FC1 install and am starting fresh with FC3 using Jarod's guide. I am unable to install a working Nvidia module, though. I tried 6629 and the module was loaded successfully, but the system just hangs at the Nvidia splash screen on bootup. I then remo

Re: [mythtv-users] Another black border question

2005-01-09 Thread Robin Smith
Try typing nvidia-settings on the commandline, its a little utility that has overscan settings for the nvidia cards. There's a way to make it load the settings at boot time but I can't remember what it is, I think the steps are on Jarod's site. You need to be using the latest nvidia drivers. Robin

Re: [mythtv-users] Cheap, powerful, quiet, small front-end: problems getting it running!

2005-01-09 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:25:07PM -0600, John Williams wrote: > > David, > I'm not an expert, but I have heard of these shared memory PCs having > a setting for the video memory allocation in the BIOS. Your "dynamic > memory" setting may be 16 MB in the BIOS and this would be pretty > restrictive

[mythtv-users] can't load nvidia 6106 or 6111 modules, and 6629 fails (FC3, ATrpms)

2005-01-09 Thread Mike Jasper
Hi, I have blown away my FC1 install and am starting fresh with FC3 using Jarod's guide. I am unable to install a working Nvidia module, though. I tried 6629 and the module was loaded successfully, but the system just hangs at the Nvidia splash screen on bootup. I then removed all traces of

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: vmlinuz and rpm db4 problems (FC1, ATrpms)

2005-01-09 Thread Mike Jasper
Axel Thimm wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:57:25PM -0800, Mike Jasper wrote: 1) I was fooling around with ALSA tonight and uninstalled the kernel-module-alsa package. I tried reinstalling it (also the alsa-kmdl package), but got an error like this: The following packages have unmet dependenci

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't use MacOS X frontend on wireless network

2005-01-09 Thread Bryan Murphy
Same problem here. I think it has more to do with OSX + MythTV than the network, but I have no idea how to fix it. That being said, I've found that disabling other network programs (ssh, fire, web browser, etc.) helps considerably. Also, on my iBook (1.2ghz + 1g RAM), MythTV runs 60%+ and sp

[mythtv-users] Another black border question

2005-01-09 Thread nowhere
I upgraded to FC2 a while back and the new nvidia drivers and with the new drivers, I have a black border around the visible screen (analog s-video out). I am using the on board GF4 and and tvout function of the MSI mainboard I have. These borders are present outside of myth in X, in myth on the m

Re: [mythtv-users] Cheap, powerful, quiet, small front-end: problems getting it running!

2005-01-09 Thread Rusty McEacharn
i had a similar problem with an i810 and shared memory. on playback the display would stay blue. i am not sure if audio was working becasue the machine is a backend only with no speakers. anyway, adding the Option line below to xorg.conf fixed the problem. the problem is documented within the r

Re: [mythtv-users] System crashes when I try to do data transfer over ethernet

2005-01-09 Thread Julian Edwards
Micah Wedemeyer wrote: I've got an Epia MKII-10k running FC2 as my Myth frontend. Whenever I try to do a big data transfer (like SCP) the entire system hard crashes after about 2 seconds of data transfer. However, this only seems to happen when transferring across the local network. I can use wg

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XBox

2005-01-09 Thread Joe Votour
You could probably run the backend and the frontend on the Xbox, but for most purposes, it's just not practical. Here are the problems with the XBox as an all-in-one solution: 1. CPU speed. It's only a 733MHz machine, it'll never handle both full frontend and backend duties. Watching LiveTV had

Re: [mythtv-users] Cheap, powerful, quiet, small front-end: problems getting it running!

2005-01-09 Thread John Williams
> The eVectra has 128 megs of memory. My XBox only has 64. Now, I know > the XBox has "shared video memory" - does that mean it uses main > memory? The eVectra uses Intel 810E integrated graphics with Direct > AGP and "Dynamic Video Memory" - I'm not sure if that's the same thing > or not. > >

[mythtv-users] Hauppauge 350 A415 Remote - lirc file

2005-01-09 Thread Tim Knight
I just got a 350 it has a new remote a A415. The lirc.conf file seems okay, but I was wondering if anyone had the mythtv lirc map file for this remote? If not I will post one in a few days, but figured I would check first. Thanks, Tim ___ mythtv-use

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: vmlinuz and rpm db4 problems (FC1, ATrpms)

2005-01-09 Thread Mr. Myth
Mr. Myth wrote: export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* rpm --rebuilddb apt-get update apt-get upgrade export -n LD_ASSUME_KERNEL I read the bug report but it doesn't solve it for me either. If I run the export, then rpm works ok. The apt-get's only updated one package - tk. Aft

Re: [mythtv-users] can't find kernel#2.6.8-1.521

2005-01-09 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, George Lopez wrote: > I am having the exact same problem. The mail list is > not very informative on this. I tried to skip and > continue with the install process but got stuck at the > ivtv portion. Now I can't really do anything. > > see the steps and output below: > > [EMA

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: vmlinuz and rpm db4 problems (FC1, ATrpms)

2005-01-09 Thread Mr. Myth
Axel Thimm wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:57:25PM -0800, Mike Jasper wrote: 1) I was fooling around with ALSA tonight and uninstalled the kernel-module-alsa package. I tried reinstalling it (also the alsa-kmdl package), but got an error like this: The following packages have unmet depende

AW: [mythtv-users] mythtvburn syntax question

2005-01-09 Thread Bene Martin
> growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=$myfolder""/temp/mythburndvd.iso > > Now, since growiosfs des not have a man page, I am omly > geussing but it does not look correct. Here's a line from > my working script: > > growisofs -dvd-video -Z /dev/dvd $WORKDIR > > /dev/dvd is linked to /dev/scd0, so thta's OK.

[mythtv-users] System crashes when I try to do data transfer over ethernet

2005-01-09 Thread Micah Wedemeyer
I've got an Epia MKII-10k running FC2 as my Myth frontend. Whenever I try to do a big data transfer (like SCP) the entire system hard crashes after about 2 seconds of data transfer. However, this only seems to happen when transferring across the local network. I can use wget to download files fr

[mythtv-users] FC3 Suspend available?

2005-01-09 Thread Mark Hutchinson
When MythTV box is not in use, I would like to save some power. Is there an ability to suspend ( sleep ) FC3? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] Mobile Myth Suggestions

2005-01-09 Thread nowhere
Thanks Dave, Only problem is cost. Laptops are expensive. I was hoping to put together a much much cheaper system (Xbox or perhaps a Via system). I already have a 20inch flat panel TV mounted in the raised roof, and cabinets on the left and right to fit A/V/Game stuff in. If the Xbox is capable o

[mythtv-users] OT - Warning when loading X

2005-01-09 Thread Don Brett
Does anybody get this warning in their X log (XFree86.0.log): (WW) VESA Framebuffer: More than one matching Device section found: I've looked at XF86Config and don't see any duplicate entries. Also, it seems to happen whether I have the pvr-350 tv-out setups in XF86Config or not. Thanks for the

[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase not updating?

2005-01-09 Thread j2
Hello! I can not get mythfilldatabase to update changes in scheduling. I am using tv_grab_se_swedb And when using --update i get stuff like below: (Also, is --refresh-today and --refresh-second valid for this grabber?) Basically, how can i "rewrite" the program guide, with the update data, and n

[mythtv-users] Cheap, powerful, quiet, small front-end: problems getting it running!

2005-01-09 Thread David Levine
Hi, all. I recently bought an HP eVectra on eBay for $90 for my second front-end. I figured this would be a very cheap solution - cheaper than my XBox front-end. It's a P3-933MHz with 128 Megs of RAM, and a 20 GB hard drive. It's not something I would use as a general purpose computer because i

Re: [mythtv-users] ALSA and intel8x0

2005-01-09 Thread Anthony Floyd
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:54:49 -0600, Robert Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well if its similar to setting up the nforce II board I have for digital > output (It uses the same driver) then i'd try something like > > mplayer -ao alsa1x:spdif filename.mp3 > Just a note (I went through this yest

Re: [mythtv-users] Mobile Myth Suggestions

2005-01-09 Thread David Highley
Look at http://www.gamepc.com. The notebook GPN-A64C can be configured with a TV capture card. It has the best flat panel I have seen. > > Laptop is the way to go. I think USB tuners are OK with most distros > now, and you overcome the power and heat problems. Some lappies can > be noisey thoug

[mythtv-users] Can't use MacOS X frontend on wireless network

2005-01-09 Thread Eggert Thorlacius
Hello I am having problems streaming video from my backend server to a MacOS X frontend on a wireless network. I have a FC2 machine running a combination frontend/backend with the 0.16 distribution from atrpms on a machine that is connected to my TV. I can also hook my Mac up to Ethernet and u

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Suid root, but mythtv complains that it isn't.

2005-01-09 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug Larrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Hughes wrote: > > The problem appears to be that the kernel now implements setuid > > properly so that it changes the UID of the process rather than just > > the current thread so it isn't possible to have a pri

Re: [mythtv-users] Eject DVD drive using remote's eject button

2005-01-09 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Piers Kittel wrote: Stan, Should be. I think you need to use eject, and thta probably needs to be run with sudo toget the right permissions. Cheers, but what should I be using? irxevent? And what's the correct syntax? I looked in irxevent's man page with no avail. irexec. I use it to map a k

Re: [mythtv-users] Eject DVD drive using remote's eject button

2005-01-09 Thread Piers Kittel
Stan, Should be. I think you need to use eject, and thta probably needs to be run with sudo toget the right permissions. Cheers, but what should I be using? irxevent? And what's the correct syntax? I looked in irxevent's man page with no avail. Thanks again, Cheers - Piers

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XBox

2005-01-09 Thread Will
No video card needs to be added to the XBox (one couldn't be anyway), but you'll definitely need another PC as a backend. Will the Xbox support installing a non-capture backend on the system? I am considering using it as a standalone video player for my conversion van... You may be better off insta

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Suid root, but mythtv complains that it isn't.

2005-01-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Tom Hughes wrote: The problem appears to be that the kernel now implements setuid properly so that it changes the UID of the process rather than just the current thread so it isn't possible to have a privileged thread anymore. Basically the whole scheme only worked because threads on linux are effe

Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-AB P2600 - store in germany?

2005-01-09 Thread Michael Haas
Michael Haas wrote: No luck on ebay, either. Yeah, i found one on ebay ;). Have a nice day! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with Streamzap

2005-01-09 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Tony Howard wrote: Has anyone gotten a Streamzap working with a recent version of lirc? The SourceForge driver won't patch against lirc 0.7.0. I found 2 other drivers - one here: I'm using the sourceforge diff against 0.7.0pre4 currently. As I recall I had to mess with the patch a little bit

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XBox

2005-01-09 Thread Matt Picker
I don't see why not. I have never tried this myself but I would say you would just go about a regular myth install and install mythvideo and mythmusic and anything else you want. You wouldn't be able to use that distro you were pointed at. You would have to use something like xebian or gentoo an

RE: [mythtv-users] plugin issue

2005-01-09 Thread William
You will have to uninstall the stuff you put into /usr/local/bin and recompile into /usr/bin. The paths are all set for your code to live in /usr/bin. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dave sailer > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Soundblaster live and AC3 for MythDVD help

2005-01-09 Thread Mihail Kolesnyk
On Sunday, 09-Jan-2005 00:41, Neil Milne wrote: > Here's all the audio configs from my xine config file: > audio.driver:alsa > audio.device.alsa_front_device:default > audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Pass Through # cat .xine/config | grep audio. | grep -v '#' audio.driver:alsa audio.device.alsa_fr

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Suid root, but mythtv complains that it isn't.

2005-01-09 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:04:41PM +, Tom Hughes wrote: > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Brad Templeton <

Re: [mythtv-users] Mobile Myth Suggestions

2005-01-09 Thread David Whyte
Laptop is the way to go. I think USB tuners are OK with most distros now, and you overcome the power and heat problems. Some lappies can be noisey though. Dave On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:11:39 -0700, nowhere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Everyone! > > I am considering replacing my stupid DVD pl

Re: [mythtv-users] Black borders on screen

2005-01-09 Thread David Whyte
I find that some content is wider than others. A number of ads and stuff leave black borders left and right, but the actual program fills the screen in 4:3 mode. I just leave it in 4:3 all the time. I have noticed though that when you change to another mode, such as zoom or 16:9, then the OSD do

Re: [mythtv-users] X over PVR-350 TV-Out on FC3

2005-01-09 Thread Nick Rosier
Nicholas, better post ivtvt-related problems on the ivtv-users list (ivtv-users@lists.sourceforge.net). N. On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 01:30:21 -0800 (PST), Nicholas Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Like a lot of other people I've been having plenty of > trouble getting this to work. After weeks of

Re: [mythtv-users] No mouse in mythgame

2005-01-09 Thread Torsten Schenkel
Am Sonntag, den 09.01.2005, 00:58 +0100 schrieb Torsten Schenkel: > The framebuffer seems to be capable of scummvm output. The intro goes > fine and the first room looks nice as well with the animations etc. > > I still got two problems: > > 1. No sound, but that's not mythgame related This is

Re: [mythtv-users] ALSA and intel8x0

2005-01-09 Thread Mark Anderson
I have SPDIF passthrough running on an intel8x0 some suggestions: 1. Make friends with alsamixer, 2. I had to issue an "iecset audio on" to get digital audio working, it took me ages to work that one out, 3. I have these options in my modprobe, but can't remember why :-( options snd-intel8x0 ac9

[mythtv-users] Re: vmlinuz and rpm db4 problems (FC1, ATrpms)

2005-01-09 Thread Axel Thimm
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:57:25PM -0800, Mike Jasper wrote: > 1) I was fooling around with ALSA tonight and uninstalled the > kernel-module-alsa package. I tried reinstalling it (also the alsa-kmdl > package), but got an error like this: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: >

[mythtv-users] X over PVR-350 TV-Out on FC3

2005-01-09 Thread Nicholas Bloch
Like a lot of other people I've been having plenty of trouble getting this to work. After weeks of banging my head against my desk, I've finally patched together a solution from other peoples suggestions. I've set everything up pretty much according to Jarod's HOWTO. I've installed the rpm packag