[uug] Problem with MythTV/HDTV/nVidia

2006-02-17 Thread Steve Meyers
I've got a Pentium 4 2.8GHz with an nVidia FX 5500 in my frontend machine. I'm having a little bit of trouble playing HDTV on it. If I don't enable XvMC, but use libmpeg2, I can play 720p without many problems, but 1080i stutters every 1-2 seconds. Even 720p stutters once every 10-15 seconds

Re: [uug] killing the right shell script

2006-02-17 Thread Jason Holt
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Jason Holt wrote: I imagine you'll want something involving "echo $$ >myscript.pid" and then perhaps "ps -a | grep `cat myscript.pid` | grep myscript && kill `cat myscript.pid` && exit" If you were running a high reliability system, you'd want to do something like the ab

Re: [uug] killing the right shell script

2006-02-17 Thread Jared Lundell
Nathan wrote: > On 2/17/06, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello shell script gurus. I'm sure I'm doing this the hard way...so if >> you could shed some light. >> >> I'm trying to write a shell script that will only run if it's not >> running already, and if it is running, kill the oth

Re: [uug] killing the right shell script

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Moore
> echo "I'm the only one running, so now I'll do some stuff..." > echo `(some command to get your own PID)` > /tmp/mypidfile You know, I should have figgured that there was an easy way to get the PID. I just kept thinking "how would I get it out of this line: "liney 1000 0.0 0.118644572

Re: [uug] killing the right shell script

2006-02-17 Thread Nathan
On 2/17/06, Jason Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Michael Moore wrote: > > > Hello shell script gurus. I'm sure I'm doing this the hard way...so if > > you could shed some light. > > > > I'm trying to write a shell script that will only run if it's not > > running already,

Re: [uug] killing the right shell script

2006-02-17 Thread Nathan
On 2/17/06, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello shell script gurus. I'm sure I'm doing this the hard way...so if > you could shed some light. > > I'm trying to write a shell script that will only run if it's not > running already, and if it is running, kill the other process. ie: > > i

Re: [uug] killing the right shell script

2006-02-17 Thread Justin Findlay
On 2/17/06, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ ps aux | grep loopy > liney 1000 0.0 0.118644572 std S 9:52PM 0:00.00 > bash ./loopy.sh I think what you want is the second field ("1000") which is the PID. So, just 'kill $PID'. Justin BYU Unix U

Re: [uug] killing the right shell script

2006-02-17 Thread Jason Holt
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Michael Moore wrote: Hello shell script gurus. I'm sure I'm doing this the hard way...so if you could shed some light. I'm trying to write a shell script that will only run if it's not running already, and if it is running, kill the other process. ie: if ( other copy of m

[uug] killing the right shell script

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Moore
Hello shell script gurus. I'm sure I'm doing this the hard way...so if you could shed some light. I'm trying to write a shell script that will only run if it's not running already, and if it is running, kill the other process. ie: if ( other copy of me already running) kill both myself and oth

Re: [uug] Gadgetboard

2006-02-17 Thread Justin Findlay
On 2/17/06, Jared Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Free and lost cost, huh. Some kind of new marketing speak? As Jason has expounded and Erin supposed already that the 'F' in "Free" betokens Free as in not royalty- or restrictively permissions-entangled I hope somehow Jason, no matter what his p

[uug] MythTV Notes from last night

2006-02-17 Thread Erin Sharmahd
Last night, Andrew and Scott mentioned that their notes were all online. For anyone who misplaced the URL or didn't write it down, it's at: http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/linux/mythtv/ Good luck to everyone who'll be setting this up! ~Erin -- http://www.tuxgirl.com BYU Unix

Re: [uug] Gadgetboard

2006-02-17 Thread Erin Sharmahd
> Free and lost cost, huh. Some kind of new marketing speak? Judging from the capital F in Free, I'm assuming he means Free as in speech, rather than free as in pizza... -- http://www.tuxgirl.com BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this messag

Re: [uug] Gadgetboard

2006-02-17 Thread Jason Holt
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Jared Moore wrote: Free and lost cost, huh. Some kind of new marketing speak? http://lunkwill.org/gadgetboard/#Frequently%20Asked%20Questions Frequently Asked Questions What do you mean by "Free, low-cost"? The Gadgetboard is Free in the sense defined by the FSF -- you

Re: [uug] Gadgetboard

2006-02-17 Thread Jared Moore
Free and lost cost, huh. Some kind of new marketing speak? BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG.

[uug] Gadgetboard

2006-02-17 Thread Jason Holt
Jamie asked me to post this: http://www.lunkwill.org/gadgetboard/ The Gadgetboard is a Free, low cost, user friendly microcontroller experimentation board on steroids. The Atmel microcontroller comes programmed with a command-line interface which runs over the serial port, allowing the user