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williammandahelp!!!12:29
superm1williammanda, did you break something?12:30
williammandamy xorg.0.log.....unble to load  "xf86ExecX86int1012:31
williammandai get this error toward the end of the xorg.....12:31
williammandatrying to get the svideo working12:31
williammandawhat is this file?12:31
superm1cant say i've ever heard of it12:32
williammandaif it would load...i think it would work12:32
superm1could you paste your Xorg.0.log in a pastebin website?12:32
superm1so i can see the rest12:32
williammandahold on12:32
williammandahttp://pastebin.ca/46633112:39
williammandasorry had to reload the "good" xorg12:39
williammandai have been working on this for about 7 hours today...12:40
superm1man!12:40
superm1wow12:40
williammandabeen following several guides12:40
superm1are you attempting a clone mode?12:40
williammandaon tseloit now12:40
superm1or what is your end goal?12:40
superm1just tv-out?12:41
williammandawell...it looks like one of two ways...12:41
williammandacloning or 2 separate screens12:41
williammandai can't get either going12:41
superm1well this is the trouble12:42
superm1#12:42
superm1(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768"12:42
superm1#12:42
superm1(EE) NVIDIA(0): The requested configuration of display devices is not12:42
superm1#12:42
superm1(EE) NVIDIA(0):     supported in the hardware.12:42
superm1more so then that xf86ExecX86int10 i think12:42
superm1if you are trying to do clone resolutions, both tv and monitor need to support that resolution12:42
williammandahummm12:43
superm1so do them as seperate12:43
superm1or better yet12:43
superm1twinview12:43
williammandatwinview works with 6200 le?12:44
williammandanvidia12:44
williammandai follwed this for twinview...12:45
williammandahttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaTVOut12:45
superm1and thats what you have?12:46
superm1right now12:46
williammandayes12:46
superm1well that is weird.12:46
williammandanvidia 6200 le12:46
superm1there is no reason it shouldnt support twinview12:47
superm1is that similar to what it spit out from nvidia-settings?12:47
williammandai'll reload the twinview xorg file and post the log12:47
williammandahumm...something intresting just happened....12:59
williammandamy lcd monitor was blank...01:00
williammandaso I decided to try the tv01:00
williammandai switched the channels around and I have the desktop on the tv01:00
superm1haha01:00
superm1there you go01:00
williammandabut not on the monitor01:01
superm1so the two are switched?01:01
williammandasi that the way it is supposed to be?01:01
superm1open up nvidia-settings01:01
superm1and you can switch the one that is primary i think01:01
williammandayes switched01:01
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tgm4883is there something good to read on the file structure of linux?02:10
rogue780|laptopargh! does anyone know about openchrome? the picture is all distorted on the tv. just black and white, and garbled like HBO02:11
superm1sorry rogue780|laptop , no :(02:13
rogue780|laptopwell I'm gonna find out, then I'm going to put all my unichrome stuff that I learned in the wiki02:14
superm1awesome :)02:14
superm1thats what i like to hear02:14
superm1tgm4883, wikipedia i'd bet02:15
superm1bendailey, imbrandon stopped in and said things are going to be moving along smoothly with the domain :)02:17
superm1good to hear02:17
tgm4883thanks superm1, just checked it out, not really what im looking for.  Ill just use google and hope i get something relevent02:19
superm1what are you looking to find out about file structures exactly?02:20
rogue780|laptopsuccess!02:26
superm1that was quick rogue780|laptop02:27
superm1:)02:27
tgm4883i really just want to know what things are for, for instance, why is bin named bin?  why etc, why opt, sbin02:27
tgm4883that sort of thing02:27
tgm4883interesting that ive been using linux this long and have no idea what those are02:28
rogue780|laptopetc stands for "Extra Tool Chest" so i'm told02:28
rogue780|laptopbin I think is called that because it is where the actual binary programs are kept02:28
rogue780|laptopthe rest is a mystery02:28
superm1and lib is where libraries are kept02:28
rogue780|laptopto me anyway02:28
rogue780|laptopsee there ya go02:28
rogue780|laptophome is ...well no need to explain that02:29
tgm4883ok, so if i wanted to mount a nfs share for multiple users, where would i mount it?02:30
superm1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard02:30
rogue780|laptopwhat would take to put built in unichrome support into mythbuntu?02:30
superm1tgm4883, /mnt typically02:31
tgm4883thanks superm1, i looked all over for that, although i was searching for things like "unified filesystem" and "linux filesystem"02:31
superm1but that depends on its purpose really02:31
superm1rogue780|laptop, what was involved with getting unichrome going?02:31
superm1ex if you are mounting an area for temp space, it wouldnt make sense to mount it in /mnt02:32
rogue780|laptopwell I just had to follow the tutorial on the ubuntu site about openchrome mostly....but then I had to find some random setting for xorg. that was the hard part, which is why I'm putting that on the wiki02:33
superm1after first release (and hence we have a lot of the installer stuff sorted out), it should be feasible02:34
tgm4883mp3's, movies, user documents, pictures, CD's, misc files02:34
rogue780|laptopI just downloaded the file from svn, autoconf'd it, make, make install...etc02:34
superm1why isnt the driver in feisty?02:34
superm1more importantly will it be in gutsy02:34
superm1tgm4883, like a home folder?02:34
superm1like several home folders02:34
rogue780|laptopthat's what I want to know. it's a free open source driver....probably just because openchrome isn't overly popular02:35
rogue780|laptopexcept for us people who build our mythfrontends in old NES cases and need a small motherboard and are stuck with via/unichrome02:35
superm1i'll add it to my todo list02:36
tgm4883sorta, the only thing user independent would be the user documents, the rest (CD's are all my ripped software, movies are all my ripped dvd's, mp3's , misc files are files everyone needs access too).  Although currently it is temp mounted in my home folder for testing02:36
superm1it would most likely make sense to mount in /mnt i think02:37
superm1for that purpose02:37
tgm4883ok, i was thinking that or either /usr/share02:38
superm1not /usr/share02:38
superm1thats not a good idea02:38
rogue780|laptopnow to set up lirc02:38
superm1some apps use that for other things02:38
tgm4883ah ok02:38
tgm4883is there a way to test throughput over a network connection?02:43
tgm4883i think my nic is acting up on my server02:43
superm1iperf02:43
tgm4883sweet thanks02:44
tgm4883hmm, looks fine to me02:46
superm1you can tweak quite a bit with that app02:47
tgm4883im thinking i need an extended test, as it seems to stall when transfering large files, then continues02:48
tgm4883its a good app though02:48
superm1scp or nfs stall?02:49
tgm4883nfs, and its just for a few seconds, then keeps going.  Also, ssh takes a few seconds to return the password prompt02:50
tgm4883longer than on my mythtv box anyway02:50
superm1hm02:50
tgm4883(although the mythtv box is a much more powerful computer i would think that my server is adaquit)02:51
tgm4883the only thing im thinking is a gigabyte nic problem02:51
tgm4883my gigabyte switch went out so im only hooked up to a 100mb switch, heard bad things about that and auto-negotiation02:52
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superm1cant comment much there myself02:53
rogue780|laptopmy myth server is a 2.0ghz athlon XP with a gig-o-ram and a 350GB hd02:56
rogue780|laptopit works nice02:56
rogue780|laptopis there a way to adjust the scan of the actual tuner? my situation is this, when it records a show there is about an 8-12 pixel vertical black bar on the left of the screen. it's in the actual movie file, not just a display issue.02:59
superm1not afaik.03:00
rogue780|laptopafaik?03:01
superm1as far as i know03:02
tgm4883lol, rogue|laptop, my server is a athlon XP 2000+ with 768 ram and about 700Gb space03:03
tgm4883pretty similar03:04
rogue780|laptopmy myth server is also my print server, itunes server, file server (samba and nfs), soon to be mail and web server03:04
rogue780|laptopI just love ubuntu03:04
tgm4883mine just does file serving right now (printer has built in print server, doesn't work well under ubuntu though)03:05
tgm4883hopefully soon it will also be a backend slave for mythtv03:05
rogue780|laptopanyway, my server used to be my windows gaming machine...but the games outpaced it03:05
tgm4883mine too03:05
tgm4883its like were the same person03:06
rogue780|laptopso I made it a mythbox...my second and final attempt before I ditched the effort...and it worked03:06
rogue780|laptopindeed ;)03:06
tgm4883now what is an itunes server?  just serves other computers your music files or does it do more?03:06
rogue780|laptopwell I have my windows computer, my linux desktop, and my dualbootin' rootin' tootin' windows/ubuntu laptop (I only use the windows side for studying the PFE with PFE gold, and itunes)03:08
rogue780|laptopand I might want to sync my ipod with any of those computers, or just listen to my music library from any of those computers03:09
rogue780|laptopso I have my entire (about 15GB) itunes library hosted on my server, and I point itunes to a mapped drive that gives me access to my itunes library from any computer03:10
tgm4883nice03:11
rogue780|laptopdon't you just *love* it when you think you paid a $700 bill, but the check got lost in the mail, and you spent the money that was supposed to go to the company?03:13
rogue780|laptopI sure do03:13
rogue780|laptopNOT03:13
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rogue780|laptopargh. irw is giving me a connection refused error03:38
rogue780|laptoplirc hates me and always has03:39
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williammanda.05:45
superm1sort out the tv-out mess williammanda ?05:46
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Davieydid somebody ping me?08:43
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bendaileyAnyone have a minute for a newbie mythtv question?03:42
tgm4883_laptopunless its real quick im leaving for class and will be back in about 3 hours04:15
bendaileythanks I think I am gong to try some more testing04:17
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tgm4883_laptopclass canceled, if you still need help bendailey04:43
bendaileyglad you class was cancelled04:43
tgm4883_laptopthat makes 2 of us04:43
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bendaileymy question was about recording size on a defuault mythtv install04:44
tgm4883_laptopok04:44
tgm4883like how big the file sizes are?04:44
bendaileyyeah in about 30 Minutes the recording grew to over 6G04:45
tgm4883hmm04:45
tgm4883that seems two large, let me check mine04:45
tgm4883HD or SD?04:46
bendaileyOTA SD on a  Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 with no hw mpeg encoder04:46
tgm4883oh04:47
tgm4883hmm04:47
tgm4883thats way too large04:47
bendaileyhttp://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Recording_Parameters that is what I thought04:47
tgm4883my 1 hour HD recordings are only around 6.6Gb04:47
bendaileyAre you using MPEG4 or RTJPEG?04:48
bendaileyor something else?04:48
tgm4883well the HD recordings are already compressed04:48
tgm4883they stream in mpeg204:48
bendaileyright so you not transcoding them on the fly just dumping them to disk right?04:48
tgm4883yea, no need for encoding04:49
tgm4883although im not sure what happens to my SD now that I think about it04:49
tgm4883i capture it over firewire04:49
bendaileyOnce I get some cash scraped I plan on getting a kworld atsc-110 to get atsc streams which will be mpeg04:50
bendaileympeg* mpeg204:50
bendaileySD & HD over firewire?04:50
tgm4883yea from my STB04:50
bendaileyso your STB is dumping you an mpeg2 stream either way04:51
tgm4883my SD recordings are only about 1.2Gb for 30 minutes04:51
tgm4883thats what i figured04:51
bendaileygtg work calling04:52
bendaileythanks for the input04:52
tgm4883np, wish i could help more04:52
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Andyman53Hey all09:38
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tgm4883_laptophey andyman5310:46
Andyman53hey10:46
Andyman53i can't seem to get myth tv to work with my tv card10:46
Andyman53i have a hauppague pvr-15010:46
tgm4883_laptopwhat version ubuntu?10:47
Andyman53the guide shows up empty too, except if i search by show, and neither allow recording10:47
Andyman53i don't know10:47
tgm4883_laptopis this a backend/frontend/desktop?10:47
Andyman53frontend10:48
Andyman53it's a whole setup10:48
Andyman53frontend and backend10:49
tgm4883_laptopok, so a combined frontend/backend, can you get to a command prompt10:49
Andyman53yeah10:50
tgm4883_laptopok, do "cat /etc/issue"10:51
tgm4883_laptopand post the output10:51
Andyman53someone set this up for me10:51
Andyman53looks like they're running fedora 610:52
Andyman53changed the background :(10:52
tgm4883_laptopso you have fedora 6?10:52
Andyman53yeah10:52
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tgm4883_laptophmm, cant help you much there as im not familiar with that10:52
Andyman53i see10:53
Andyman53alright then10:53
Andyman53bye10:53
tgm4883_laptopalthough10:53
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tgm4883_laptopwell that was quick10:53
tgm4883_laptopdidn't even get to suggest feisty10:53
rogue780|laptoplol11:07
rogue780|laptopcoulda at least directed to the myth(TV)ology page11:08
rogue780|laptopok I've got lirc issues again11:09
rogue780|laptopI keep getting this error(sorry for the flood):11:13
rogue780|laptop#####################################################11:13
rogue780|laptop## I couldn't load the required kernel modules     ##11:13
rogue780|laptop## You should install lirc-modules-source to build ##11:13
rogue780|laptop## kernel support for your hardware.               ##11:13
rogue780|laptop#####################################################11:13
rogue780|laptop## If this message is not appropriate you may set  ##11:13
rogue780|laptop## LOAD_MODULES=false in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf   ##11:13
rogue780|laptop#####################################################11:13
rogue780|laptophere is what I'm doing (IAW the wiki)11:29
rogue780|laptopshawn@NESPC:~$ irw11:30
rogue780|laptopconnect: Connection refused11:30
rogue780|laptopshawn@NESPC:~$ mode211:30
rogue780|laptopmode2: error opening /dev/lirc11:30
rogue780|laptopmode2: Permission denied11:30
rogue780|laptopshawn@NESPC:~$ sudo mode211:30
rogue780|laptopPassword:11:30
rogue780|laptopmode2: error opening /dev/lirc11:30
rogue780|laptopmode2: No such device11:30
rogue780|laptopshawn@NESPC:~$ ls /dev | grep lirc11:30
rogue780|laptoplirc11:30
rogue780|laptoplircd11:30
rogue780|laptoplircm11:30
rogue780|laptopshawn@NESPC:~$11:30
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rogue780|laptopok now if I do "modprobe lirc_serial" irw doesn't work, but mode2 does11:34
Davieyewww lirc11:34
rogue780|laptopso now that I modprobed the lirc_serial module it how do I make it stay working?11:50
Davieyrogue780|laptop, i found this guide to be excellent11:57
Davieyhttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_Lirc_Feisty11:57
rogue780|laptopthat's the one I've been using12:00
rogue780|laptopI think I may have figured it out...i dunno. I'll have to restart myth and lirc12:00
rogue780|laptopit's this silly serial receiver that is kinda quirky12:01
william_what is the script that auto start mythbackend?12:03
Daviey /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend ?12:06
william_ty12:07
william_if i wanted to start a program on boot up...how could I do that?12:13
Davieythe ubuntu packages should do that for you automatically12:14
Daviey(or is this non-mythtv)?12:14
william_yes non myth12:15
Davieyokay.. what stage do you want it executed?12:15
Daviey(with gnome) or before?12:15
william_? have no idea12:15
william_i'm using both gnome and kde12:16
Davieythen you probably need to add it as a runlevel daemon12:19
Davieywhat is the app?12:19
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william_not sure...just trying to understand what I need to do if I want to auto load something at bootup12:24
Davieywilliam_, okay.. you have various 'run levels'12:25
Davieysee them: http://www.help2go.com/Tutorials/Linux%10UNIX/Linux_Runlevels.html12:26
Davieyyou have /etc/rc0.d   - to -- /etc/rc6.d12:27
Davieythese are the different runlevels12:27
Davieybut first you need to make a startup/stop script to drop into /etc/init.d/12:27
Davieythere is an example in there IIRC12:28
william_ty12:28

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