Dewey_Oxberger
May 28th, 2008, 12:04 AM
I have a Mythbuntu 7.10 system that works great. All tweaked and configured and just humming along. Wasn't that hard to get going.
I pull the hard drive and put in a bigger one. Do a fresh install of Mythbuntu 8.04 - and the learning starts. Here is what I've learned:
1) I was lucky on the 7.10 install. I should have been greatful and just left it alone. Good thing I got it's hard drive.
2) When you install do not say you have a remote and it's custom. that will crash the mythbuntu install.
3) The syslog (/var/log/syslog - if I remember right) has lots of good stuff in it when things crash. Same with logs in /var/log/mythtv/
4) If you use the Envy script to get your video drivers all shiney-like then you are in for trouble with 8.04. Summary: follow his directions but do a
sudo apt-get remove envyng-core
before you do the
rm -R /usr/share/envy
he has you do. Then just do sudo apt-get install envyng-core and sudo envyng -t to get all that video goodness.
5) It's the details that count: The directory permissions need to be 775, I keep typing 755. Brain damage. It's mythtv:mythtv. You now set the recordings directory by giving editing the "Default" storage location.
6) XvMC is a pain. With 7.10/myth 0.20 my hardware shows 20-40% cpu when watching tv. In 8.04/0.21 with XvMC it's 10-20% but it sometimes goes to 90% and starts stuttering. CPU++ helped but it still seems unstable. (hardware runs memtest real solid like and 7.10 is solid as granite 3mo uptime with no trouble).
7) Something seems disconnected in the audio control. I can't control the volume in 8.04/0.21.
8) Mythtv seems to be forgetting my tv channel connections. It'll work for a day or so and then wham - I go into Watch TV and nothing happens, it just pops back to the main menu with Watch TV highlighted. Going in to the channel config and re-doing all that stuff will make it work for another day or two. Nothing in the logs.
9) It creeps me out that ATSC was removed from the menus in the channel config stuff. Seems wrong.'
10) There seems to be a lot of flakey problems in 0.21. So many I cant keep track or even form a decent bug report. They are the hard to repro - yet reoccuring kind of bugs. Memory usage going bonkers, cpu usage bonkers. Hmmm.
11) I'm throwing in the towel on 0.21. To many problems.
12) If it aint broke dont fix it.
I pull the hard drive and put in a bigger one. Do a fresh install of Mythbuntu 8.04 - and the learning starts. Here is what I've learned:
1) I was lucky on the 7.10 install. I should have been greatful and just left it alone. Good thing I got it's hard drive.
2) When you install do not say you have a remote and it's custom. that will crash the mythbuntu install.
3) The syslog (/var/log/syslog - if I remember right) has lots of good stuff in it when things crash. Same with logs in /var/log/mythtv/
4) If you use the Envy script to get your video drivers all shiney-like then you are in for trouble with 8.04. Summary: follow his directions but do a
sudo apt-get remove envyng-core
before you do the
rm -R /usr/share/envy
he has you do. Then just do sudo apt-get install envyng-core and sudo envyng -t to get all that video goodness.
5) It's the details that count: The directory permissions need to be 775, I keep typing 755. Brain damage. It's mythtv:mythtv. You now set the recordings directory by giving editing the "Default" storage location.
6) XvMC is a pain. With 7.10/myth 0.20 my hardware shows 20-40% cpu when watching tv. In 8.04/0.21 with XvMC it's 10-20% but it sometimes goes to 90% and starts stuttering. CPU++ helped but it still seems unstable. (hardware runs memtest real solid like and 7.10 is solid as granite 3mo uptime with no trouble).
7) Something seems disconnected in the audio control. I can't control the volume in 8.04/0.21.
8) Mythtv seems to be forgetting my tv channel connections. It'll work for a day or so and then wham - I go into Watch TV and nothing happens, it just pops back to the main menu with Watch TV highlighted. Going in to the channel config and re-doing all that stuff will make it work for another day or two. Nothing in the logs.
9) It creeps me out that ATSC was removed from the menus in the channel config stuff. Seems wrong.'
10) There seems to be a lot of flakey problems in 0.21. So many I cant keep track or even form a decent bug report. They are the hard to repro - yet reoccuring kind of bugs. Memory usage going bonkers, cpu usage bonkers. Hmmm.
11) I'm throwing in the towel on 0.21. To many problems.
12) If it aint broke dont fix it.