[mythtv-users] Xebian and 2.6 for mythtv

2005-11-26 Thread C. R. Oldham
Greetings, >From the lists I seem to have gleaned that some people are running a 2.6 kernel on an Xbox with Xebian. I managed to get the kernel compiled, but it's not able to mount the root filesystem. I get Cannot open root device "ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2" or unknown-block(0,0) Plea

RE: [mythtv-users] Laptop tuner card

2005-11-09 Thread C. R. Oldham
> What about USB tuners? I've never used them > myself and I don't if USB 1.1 is fast enough for decent video, but it's just a thought. 1.1 won't be fast enough, I don't think. --cro ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mytht

[mythtv-users] 0.18.1 or SVN on Etch

2005-11-09 Thread C. R. Oldham
Greetings, I've been a Debian user for a long time, as I approach setting up Myth on a new machine I'm considering using Etch. The gcc 3.3->4.0 and C++ ABI breakage concerns me--is anyone running Myth on Etch? It seems the prevalance of Myth users are either on recent Fedora Core releases (3 and

RE: [mythtv-users] Long term stability?

2005-11-08 Thread C. R. Oldham
> I need to figure a way > to sync my hardware clock to the system clock without rebooting :) man hwclock ? --cro ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] HDTV digital static with DVB

2005-11-07 Thread C. R. Oldham
Greetings, Thanks all for your replies--antennaweb.org is definitely what I needed. --cro ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] HDTV digital static with DVB

2005-11-07 Thread C. R. Oldham
Preston, Sorry, I don't know the answer to your question, but I was wondering where you are located physically and how you can tell that there are digital OTA broadcasts in your area? I live in the Phoenix metro area (Chandler) and can't seem to find any information on whether or not any of the l

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: LVM and a new hard drive

2005-11-04 Thread C. R. Oldham
> I know a lot of folks here use LVM but you might want to > reconsider it. For me, one of ther biggest problems is that > if one of the drives fails in an LVM, you stand a pretty good > chance of losing everything in the volume. I don't think I would ever run an LVM setup without RAID underne

RE: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread C. R. Oldham
Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And, IMHO, if it's the 350 you want, you don't really want > the 350, but you just don't know it yet. (I have a 350 that > I'm using as if it were a 250 or a 150.) Wow, thanks for all the quick feedback. I'm leaning toward 2 150's then, that's cheap

[mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread C. R. Oldham
Greetings, I've been lurking for a while and getting ready to build my first mythtv system. It seems like the PVR-500 is a good choice for tuner/decoder cards because of the dual tuners, enabling simultaneous recording and watching of live tv. However, it doesn't seem that a lot of people are us

RE: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Xbox

2005-11-02 Thread C. R. Oldham
> > It was fairly easy using Gentoo, although I had a near vertical > > learning curve to implement a diskless xBox mythfrontend where I leave > > the HDD untouched to ensure that I can still play native games. By any chance are you interested in documenting this? This is exactly what I want t