2008/05/10/#ubuntu-mythtv.txt

[00:14] <frego_> bogus> I think mine has RC6 on it and that was identified as Philips on some webpage way back when
[00:25] <tgm4883> bogus-, which remote  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MCE_Remote
[01:09] <_mre|666> <_mre|666> i'm trying to install the nvidia driver, and nvidia-xconfig is not working
[01:09] <_mre|666> <_mre|666> X keeps loading
[01:09] <_mre|666> any ideas why?
[01:09] <_mre|666> i'm in mythbunutu, nvidia-xconfig is not working
[01:10] <Wy|laptop> what version?
[01:10] <_mre|666> 8.04
[01:10] <_mre|666> this is irritating as hell
[01:11] <Wy|laptop> I could imagine
[01:11] <_mre|666> i just want X not to load so i can compile the f*ckin driver
[01:11] <_mre|666> nvidia-xconfig is not working
[01:12] <_mre|666> X keeps loading
[01:20] <tgm4883_laptop> _mre|666, i take it that "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop" didn't work?
[01:31] <_mre|666> i think the problem is more indepth
[01:31] <_mre|666> i'm tackleing it atm
[01:32] <_mre|666> i installed nvidia-glx and it seemded to solve the driver issues atleast
[01:32] <tgm4883_laptop> wait, you didn't try that first?
[01:32] <tgm4883_laptop> or second?
[01:38] <Asa_A> Can someone help find out what's wrong with my mytharchive? Here's the end of my mythburn.log: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/11209/
[02:16] <_mre|666> how do i add drives in mythbuntu???
[02:16] <_mre|666> i don't know the fstab point off hand
[02:16] <_mre|666> anybody know?
[02:20] <_mre|666> fuck it
[02:20] <_mre|666> i'm installing gnome
[02:22] <rhpot1991_laptop> !ohmy _mre|666
[02:22] <rhpot1991_laptop> !ohmy | _mre|666
[02:22] <rhpot1991_laptop> hmmmm, where is the bot?
[02:22] <rhpot1991_laptop> watch the language _mre|666
[02:23] <rhpot1991_laptop> search for fstab on the forums and wiki, there should be enough in there to help you out
[02:36] <_mre|666> i know what fstab does
[02:36] <_mre|666> but i don't know the mount point
[02:37] <_mre|666> well this is annoying as hell...
[02:37] <_mre|666> linux isn't mounting this drive
[02:37] <_mre|666> at all
[02:37] <_mre|666> and when i try to mount what i think it is from the command line it says it's the wrong filesystem
[02:40] <rhpot1991_laptop> did you partition it and so on?
[02:40] <rhpot1991_laptop> ubuntu uses uuid's for them anymore
[02:41] <_mre|666> yeah, i know
[02:41] <_mre|666> naw... it's from an older linux install
[02:42] <_mre|666> i just partitioned the first drive
[03:24] <pretender_>  my mytharchive broke what other way can i get me mythtv recordings to DVD
[07:15] <rwalker> Was playing with Mythbuntu and have a strange problem... When playing any video (LiveTV or recorded) it is real slow/jerky or just frozen.  Using an AMD 780g chipset with 4850e proc
[07:15] <rwalker> Any thoughts?
[07:18] <pretender> problems with mytharchive hi def (digital) recordings not exporting to DVD properly.  DVD wont play.  mytharchive says something about unrecognised resolution.  How do i get hi def recordings to DVD
[07:23] <rwalker> Pretender, I don't think anyone else is around right now...  wish I knew the answer
[08:48] <dramman> how do I get mythbuntu to boot on a sata hdd?
[08:49] <dramman> can I select lilo as boot loader?  knoppmyth actually boots using lilo, but was not impressed with the package
[09:30] <laga> dramman: it should work out of the box.
[09:36] <dramman> laga: I wish
[09:39] <laga> what's the error message?
[10:19] <dramman> "GRUB Loading stage1.5."
[10:20] <laga> and nothing else?
[10:20] <dramman> no, it just stops there
[10:20] <laga> that's.. annoying. :(
[10:21] <dramman> might try vanilla Ubuntu and install myth on top
[10:21] <laga> maybe you can fiddle with your bios setting, eg disable AHCI. that might work..
[10:21] <laga> yeah, that'll also work
[10:22] <laga> s/'ll/ might/ ;)
[10:24] <dramman> what's ahci?
[10:25] <laga> dramman: it's some kind of standard to talk to SATA disks/controllers
[10:32] <dramman> right, this'll be distro number 4 this weekend...
[10:33] <laga> heh :)
[10:33] <laga> good luck!
[10:33] <laga> maybe you can post in the forums if it doesn't work, the mythbuntu forums has lots of helpful people
[10:47] <erty> If I've partioned my drive with sda1->/boot, sda4->/ where do i tell it to install the boot loader?  hd0 or sda1?
[11:13] <dramman> When "Advanced options", what location do I specify for "Device for boot loader installation"?  "(hd0)", /dev/sda or /dev/sda1?
[11:16] <dramman> why would you unselect "Install boot loader"?  ...If I had a working lilo from a previous KnoppMyth install, could I choose not to install grub?  Would lilo be able to then boot MythBuntu?
[12:43] <mandje> could you install xubuntu and later make it a mythbuntu?
[12:45] <mandje> or at first do the frontend install and later make it a backend.  just something to diminish the drive space required bus make it a linux system for the moment.
[12:45] <mandje> *but
[14:19] <laga> mandje: sure. but if you're going to use mythtv, drive space shouldn't be an issue ;)
[15:51] <mandje> laga: what is your 'sure' referring to?   and drive space wont be an issue in the future.  just for the moment it is.
[16:01] <laga> mandje: "sure, both options will work, but probably won't save you a lot of space"
[16:05] <mandje> laga: tnx. but the mythbuntu pages report a minimum space needed of 20GB for the backend.. so there's got to be a significant difference in space between frontend/backend or xubuntu/mythbuntu.
[16:06] <mandje> i'm now installing mythbuntu in a virtualbox. just to see what gives.
[16:08] <laga> mandje: backend implies recording. the biggest part of those 20GB will be for recordings.
[16:09] <laga> 20GB is not a lot of recordings, though.
[16:09] <mandje> oh ok.. so that's just reserved space. not used up after install.
[16:10] <mandje> all the myth use is for later. when i removed the XP install from that machine. can't do that now.
[16:39] <Cybertoy> hi... I finally have liveTV and can get a channel .. but have no audio ... audio working though for music or videos... any pointers to what might be wrong?
[16:45] <mandje> with default install there's not a swap made?
[17:11] <fstxx> Cybertoy: you have a bt8xx card? Is btaudio loaded
[17:42] <cosmic> HI @ ALL
[17:44] <cosmic> I have set up an Client System with only the mythfrontend installed on it. I can start the frontend but when i try to switch to live tv i get : CouldnT connect to Master Backend ? i have checked the IPs in the settings of Master and client and it looks good , where do i have to change something? has anyone a hint for me , please
[17:57] <rwalker> Anyone know how to change the keyring manager password?  Want to set it to blank to stop it from prompting...
[18:35] <Cybertoy> fstxx: tnx for the reply ... (just saw it now) ... I have a nvidia alc833 onboard audio
[18:45] <Cybertoy> ok .. I fixed it
[18:46] <Cybertoy> the upmix setting screwed it up
[18:46] <Cybertoy> setting it to Passive worked.
[18:46] <Solarbaby> I shouldn't have drank so much this morning now my vision is blurry
[21:34] <ille_> is there any debug symbols available for mythfrontend , to make a backtrace?
[21:34] <laga> even better. you can let apport create a backtrace for you.
[21:35] <laga> enable it in /etc/default/apport, reload the apport service, make sure that apport-gtk is installed, make it crash and file a bug report. yay.
[21:36] <ille_> thanx I will try that.
[21:40] <ille_> ok, i changed enabled=1 in /etc/default/apport and installed apport-gtk and sudo /etc/default/apport restart , but nothing happens after the seg fault.
[21:41] <laga> ille_: sudo /etc/init.d/apport restart i guess?
[21:41] <laga> maybe you'll have to run "apport-cli" instead, in a terminal
[21:41] <ille_> laga: exactly
[21:42] <ille_> laga: No pending crash reports. Try --help for more information.
[21:43] <ille_> laga: will reboot, brb
[21:51] <ille_> laga: haha, Sorry, the program "mythfrontend.real" closed unexpectedly, bla bla bla your computer does not have enough memory to analyze the problem..  top shows 1008048k free..
[21:51] <laga> oops :(
[21:51] <ille_> maybe file a bug on apport
[21:51] <laga> try apport-cli then..
[21:52] <ille_> No pending crash reports.
[21:52] <ille_> time to compile ...
[21:52] <laga> you can also get the ddebs from
[21:52] <laga> http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/
[21:53] <laga> just add it like a normal repo to sources.list
[21:53] <laga> and run apt-get update and you'll get some dbgsyms debs you can install.
[21:53] <ille_> aha
[21:56] <ille_> sudo apt-get install libmyth-0.21-0-dbgsym mythtv-frontend-dbgsym any more?
[21:57] <laga> that ought to be enough
[21:59] <ille_> gdb likes mythfrontend.real now :)
[22:01] <ille_> http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/11314/
[22:40] <mandje> ok ik zit in de gui van parted.  xubuntu install.  windows staat er al op. ik wil zoveel mogelijk ruimte voor xubuntu.  toch maar 'manual' optie kiezen dan?
[22:40] <mandje> ja en windows moet er voorlopig nig even op blijven dus.
[22:42] <mandje> sorry  wrong channel
[22:42] <laga> i wasn't going to say it :)
[22:42] <jduggan> damnright, i dont read hebrew
[22:42]  * jduggan grins
[22:42] <mandje> lol
[22:43] <laga> i was going to try to reply, but i read "parted" and i didn't want anyone to fry their hard disks ;)
=== rhpot1992 is now known as rhpot1991