nblender
December 11th, 2008, 12:38 PM
My Macmini mythfrontend was working pretty good on 8.04 but I decided to upgrade to 8.10.. That was more work than I thought it would be ... Maybe some of what I went through was common and maybe this post might help... I'm not saying how I resolved things is correct; mind you...
(1) After the upgrade, the system wouldn't boot beyond reFIT. Black screen with only the word "GRUB" on the top left corner. That told me it had only loaded the MBR and that's it. I had to:
sudo grub
find /boot/grub/stage1
root (hd0,2) <-- s/2/whatever find returns/
setup (hd0)
(2) then X (keyboard/mouse) didn't work due to HAL complaints in Xorg.0.log. I had to restore my old xorg.conf using the old kbd/mouse driver stanzas.
(3) no Audio on the optical out. I recompiled a newer version of Alsa from source. That fixed it immediately. (./configure && make && make install && reboot)
(4) No sound in mplayer. Change mplayer config in mythfrontend
Old: -ao alsa:device=plughw=0.1
New: -ao alsa:device=iec958,0,0
(5) kernel panic using smbfs and CIFS accessing a mountpoint on my Airport Extreme. The panic was sporadic depending on the contents of the directory itself so there was some issue with the metadata. ie: it mostly worked until I added another file to the directory from my Mac and then tried to access it from 8.10 through CIFS; instant kernel panic. I found a bunch of CIFS commits on Dec 3rd so I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.27.8 from kernel.org and now CIFS doesn't cause a panic. Alsa sound from within 2.6.27.8 also works.
My remaining problem is my Apple bluetooth keyboard. It doesn't connect on boot even though all the bluetooth modules are enabled and HIDD is enabled. I have to run a little script from rc.local that periodically monitors /proc/bus/input/devices for the presence of my keyboard and failing that, reconnects:
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
grep -q Apple /proc/bus/input/devices || hidd --connect 00:1D:4F:A6:19:61
sleep 10
done
Hope this helps someone.
(1) After the upgrade, the system wouldn't boot beyond reFIT. Black screen with only the word "GRUB" on the top left corner. That told me it had only loaded the MBR and that's it. I had to:
sudo grub
find /boot/grub/stage1
root (hd0,2) <-- s/2/whatever find returns/
setup (hd0)
(2) then X (keyboard/mouse) didn't work due to HAL complaints in Xorg.0.log. I had to restore my old xorg.conf using the old kbd/mouse driver stanzas.
(3) no Audio on the optical out. I recompiled a newer version of Alsa from source. That fixed it immediately. (./configure && make && make install && reboot)
(4) No sound in mplayer. Change mplayer config in mythfrontend
Old: -ao alsa:device=plughw=0.1
New: -ao alsa:device=iec958,0,0
(5) kernel panic using smbfs and CIFS accessing a mountpoint on my Airport Extreme. The panic was sporadic depending on the contents of the directory itself so there was some issue with the metadata. ie: it mostly worked until I added another file to the directory from my Mac and then tried to access it from 8.10 through CIFS; instant kernel panic. I found a bunch of CIFS commits on Dec 3rd so I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.27.8 from kernel.org and now CIFS doesn't cause a panic. Alsa sound from within 2.6.27.8 also works.
My remaining problem is my Apple bluetooth keyboard. It doesn't connect on boot even though all the bluetooth modules are enabled and HIDD is enabled. I have to run a little script from rc.local that periodically monitors /proc/bus/input/devices for the presence of my keyboard and failing that, reconnects:
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
grep -q Apple /proc/bus/input/devices || hidd --connect 00:1D:4F:A6:19:61
sleep 10
done
Hope this helps someone.