| zabadapp | zorglups2: is it green for all resolutions (800x600 and so on), or just for the res for the 42" ? | 00:02 |
|---|---|---|
| zabadapp | and remember that the color temperature is different for a tv than for a monitor ... | 00:04 |
| zorglups2 | Well, I tried a few and even during the boot, the 'white' text turns green. I guess this is not really an xorg matter | 00:04 |
| zorglups2 | In my TV setup page, I checked for the color temperature... This was set to default. I tried the 'warm' and 'cold' but this did not change much. | 00:05 |
| zorglups2 | A few monthes ago, I did connect my laptop to the TV and did not see this problem. | 00:07 |
| zorglups2 | My laptop run's WinXP... | 00:07 |
| zorglups2 | I should try again but would need to reboot (after having connected the TV) and can't do that now. | 00:07 |
| zabadapp | as a workaround, can't you get the colors right if you adjust them? (on the computer ... X server color correction in nvidia-settings if you have such a card ... ) | 00:08 |
| Dboy | I have this usb tuner card... made in taiwan but it has a phillips chipset. | 00:10 |
| Dboy | Shouldn't it work with myth | 00:10 |
| Dboy | ? | 00:10 |
| Dboy | I've downloaded the myth packages, but somehow I think I am missing something because it doesn't seem to recognize the usb tuner | 00:10 |
| zorglups2 | zabadapp: I should check but need to invest a bit in understanding those graphical stuffs in Linux. I feel soo stupid there... | 00:11 |
| zorglups2 | zabadapp: What I tried was playing with those RGB settings on the tv set. I did not find any suitable setting yet. | 00:11 |
| Rigolo | Dboy: did you take a look at linuxtv.org to see if it is supported by their drivers? | 00:11 |
| zorglups2 | zabadapp: The strange thing is that I don't have such a green cast with the laptop. | 00:12 |
| zabadapp | zorglups2: i agree it's strange ... what graphics card is it? | 00:12 |
| Rigolo | Dboy: the kernel modules for v4l are coming from the linuxtv.org site also | 00:13 |
| zorglups2 | zabadapp: The MoBo is the Intel D201GLY2 an has a SiS chipset. The Laptop (XP) has an ATI video controller. | 00:15 |
| zorglups2 | zabadapp: Both work fine with the 22" LCD but the "green" issue only happens when connecting the Intel Mobo to the TV. | 00:15 |
| Rigolo | zorglups2: same cables in both cases? | 00:15 |
| zorglups2 | Yes :-( I tried another cable as well... | 00:15 |
| Rigolo | zorglups2: and did you had it working with a "plain vanilla" ubunut live cd for example? | 00:16 |
| zorglups2 | I will go reboot my XP laptop connected to the TV and make sure I don't see this green problem (last time I tried was a few monthes ago). | 00:18 |
| zorglups2 | The live cd was my next idea as well. I planned using a GeexBox or something I have on CD already. | 00:18 |
| Rigolo | zorglups2: see what happens when you boot your pc connected to the 42" and then boot your live cd | 00:18 |
| zorglups2 | I will give it a try now. Thanks anyway for your support... I'll let you know. | 00:19 |
| Rigolo | zorglups2: I prefer ubuntu live cd's .. or knoppix or something like that .. with hardware detection for screens | 00:19 |
| Rigolo | 01:19 here ... time to go the bed soon :-) | 00:19 |
| zorglups2 | here too ;-) | 00:19 |
| zabadapp | here too :-D | 00:19 |
| zorglups2 | From Namur (Belgium) | 00:19 |
| Rigolo | .nl | 00:19 |
| zabadapp | sweden | 00:19 |
| zorglups2 | So I guess you won't be there when I'll post my result. Have nice dreams... | 00:20 |
| * Rigolo is waiting for mythtv to finsih compiling ... want to test a patch for a bug | 00:20 | |
| Rigolo | well ... I leave this window open most of the time :-) | 00:21 |
| alexvd | all is irman still broken in current build of mythbuntu | 01:04 |
| alexvd | that is the lirc version that is included | 01:04 |
| majoridiot | if there is anyone using firewire with a Scientific Atlanta cable box or other cable box that requires p2p priming, please pm me... testers are needed for a new version of the firewire primer. **will not require any changes to your configuration!!** | 01:06 |
| javatexan | man am I bummed | 01:25 |
| javatexan | I can't work on my plugin for a couple of weeks because of work... :( | 01:25 |
| majoridiot | javatexan, what is you plugin? | 01:27 |
| javatexan | its super top secret, but it will be very very cool when I am finished :) | 01:34 |
| zabadapp | give us a hint at least | 01:38 |
| javatexan | i cant...but its a bummer that I cant work on it for a while... | 01:39 |
| rhpot1991 | I bet it involves tivo | 01:43 |
| ajh | with nvidia I'm getting 1/4 of the screen randomly showing the myth theme background and a progress bar, while watching tv, or in the guide, any ideas? | 02:02 |
| ajh | like bad X expose events, but that's probably not it :) | 02:02 |
| Stemming78 | Hey guys --> I finally got my Remote Frontend Openchrome driver setup correctly (fresh install) and now I cannot watch LiveTV or Recordings ---Frontend closes | 02:17 |
| javatexan | rhpot1991: you are so right | 02:38 |
| javatexan | :) | 02:38 |
| javatexan | yeah...it is prolly completely useless to most myth users | 02:39 |
| javatexan | who knows...right | 02:40 |
| rhpot1991 | javatexan: I'm sure there are those who will appreciate it | 02:40 |
| javatexan | It's working now in script form...I am about to start the gui | 02:45 |
| rhpot1991 | how are you doing the gui javatexan? | 03:02 |
| superm1 | javatexan, super top secrete? | 03:12 |
| superm1 | i like secrets | 03:12 |
| superm1 | want to tell me? | 03:12 |
| superm1 | rhpot1991, mythstream finally got backported today i think | 03:13 |
| rhpot1991 | superm1: thats good to hear | 03:24 |
| rhpot1991 | I'll check the FAQs and see if anything needs to be altered to indicate that | 03:24 |
| Dar1us | has anyone used ubuntu with JMicron RAID? | 03:38 |
| Dar1us | (successfully) | 03:38 |
| MythbuntuGuest04 | i upgraded one of my frontends to hardy and the sound stoped i asked around and googled and finaly found that it was using a 386 kernel instead of the generic, so i followed to instructions to use the generic and remove the 386 one | 03:57 |
| MythbuntuGuest04 | now the sound works | 03:57 |
| MythbuntuGuest04 | but, my tv is black and white without color | 03:58 |
| MythbuntuGuest04 | when i access it with vnc its color, so im sure its something with the video card, any ideas? | 03:58 |
| MythbuntuGuest04 | anyone? | 04:08 |
| emja | anyone know where irexec starts from? I can't find it in /etc/ or in ~ | 04:12 |
| emja | ok, bad question. in what startup script is irexec referenced? | 04:19 |
| majoridiot | emja- | 04:24 |
| majoridiot | put it in /etc/rc.local | 04:25 |
| emja | ? | 04:25 |
| emja | no. I'm asking where is it already? | 04:25 |
| majoridiot | irexec is not started by default | 04:25 |
| emja | realy? | 04:25 |
| emja | on my fresh mythbuntu build it *is* starting | 04:25 |
| majoridiot | so sudo edit your /etc/rc.local and add | 04:25 |
| majoridiot | irexec -d | 04:25 |
| majoridiot | before the exit 0 | 04:25 |
| majoridiot | hm... ok. must have been a new addition. | 04:26 |
| emja | sure, but it is already starting. I'm trying to find where so I can nuke it, then I can start it in my preferred location | 04:26 |
| majoridiot | emja, are you sure about it starting automatically? | 04:26 |
| emja | yep. If I reboot, it starts | 04:27 |
| majoridiot | i just check a fresh 8.04 install and it is not running | 04:27 |
| emja | If I kill it, then restart gdm, it also starts | 04:27 |
| emja | 7.10 here | 04:27 |
| majoridiot | doesn't run by default in my 7.10 either. | 04:27 |
| emja | weird | 04:28 |
| emja | very very weird | 04:28 |
| emja | something is starting it on login or when X/gdm starts | 04:29 |
| emja | not during boot. that much I've confirmed | 04:29 |
| Dar1us | emja: grep -r iexeced / :) | 04:30 |
| Dar1us | irexecd even | 04:30 |
| emja | :) | 04:30 |
| emja | yes, did that too | 04:30 |
| emja | hence my complete lack of folicular growth | 04:30 |
| Stemming78 | majoridiot: Finally got my remote frontend setup/ 3D enabled... Have a problem watching TV or recordings --> Frontend crashes.. | 04:31 |
| majoridiot | Stemming78, i saw your earlier post... successful misery. | 04:31 |
| majoridiot | Stemming78, just out of curiosity... why are you beating yer head against a wall to get 3D working on a pvr? | 04:32 |
| Stemming78 | yah, quite the headache; but think the DRI problem I was experiencing was the worsk | 04:32 |
| Dar1us | majoridiot: awesome screensavers! :) | 04:32 |
| Stemming78 | No, throwing the kids against the wall... Dont want to ruin the looks ;-) | 04:32 |
| * emja laughs | 04:33 | |
| * majoridiot has no sympathy for eye-candy induced problems | 04:33 | |
| majoridiot | :P | 04:33 |
| Stemming78 | Must mention, I had to do another install after the last post; screwed up the xorg once again and couldnt recover. | 04:34 |
| Stemming78 | SO, the kids have been traumatized today! | 04:34 |
| Stemming78 | Anyways, what do you think? throw the box to the curb? or is there a reason for Frontend crashing.... Can play Videos | 04:35 |
| emja | Dar1us & majoridiot: found it; /usr/share/mythbuntu/session.sh | 04:36 |
| Stemming78 | majoridiot: was unable to get smooth video when watching TV or Recordings... Thats why I went 3D not to sure if it helped as I cannot get them to play... | 04:39 |
| majoridiot | 3D shouldn't have anything to do with video. | 04:39 |
| Stemming78 | ahhh, well that was unnecessary work for me then.... | 04:40 |
| Dar1us | well.. you can use open gl to scale & colour space convert | 04:40 |
| Stemming78 | So, any ideas as to how to rectify the frontend crashing? | 04:40 |
| majoridiot | Dar1us, you *can*... | 04:41 |
| majoridiot | Stemming78, what kind of errors do you get in your logs when it crashes? | 04:41 |
| Dar1us | majoridiot: and it can be beneficial | 04:41 |
| majoridiot | Dar1us, if the driver cooperates... yes, it can. | 04:42 |
| Dar1us | majoridiot: yeah :) | 04:42 |
| Stemming78 | 2008-03-28 22:29:47.164 VideoOutputXv: Desired video renderer 'ivtv' not available. | 04:42 |
| Stemming78 | codec 'MPEG2' makes 'opengl,xv-blit,xshm,xlib,' available, using 'opengl' instead. | 04:42 |
| Stemming78 | 2008-03-28 22:29:47.305 GLVid, Error: Fatal error | 04:42 |
| Stemming78 | Sorry... should have pastebin | 04:42 |
| majoridiot | not for that. not an abuse. | 04:44 |
| majoridiot | what are you using as a tuner? | 04:45 |
| Stemming78 | Tuner is on the Backend --> PVR500 | 04:45 |
| Dar1us | can anyone recommend a RAID1 card (cheap) that will work with ubunutu? | 04:46 |
| Dar1us | I'm allergic to reinstallin because of dead disks | 04:46 |
| Stemming78 | majoridiot: Well, I disabled 3D (bs) and now Recordings are playing back smooth!!! | 04:49 |
| Stemming78 | no crashes of course. You have a minute for a small fav por favor? | 04:50 |
| majoridiot | well whut'cha know. | 04:50 |
| * majoridiot is crunched for time, atm... what's up? | 04:50 | |
| Stemming78 | Hey, but the video is smooth... | 04:51 |
| majoridiot | 'twas the point, no? | 04:51 |
| Stemming78 | Xorg is my pitfall... Have it setup for TV, would like to implement LCD into it... You up for the challenge? | 04:51 |
| Dar1us | do you have a dual head card? | 04:52 |
| Dar1us | well, what sort of card do you have? | 04:52 |
| Stemming78 | The Epia has Composite and VGA output. BIOS has TV and CRT settings... Currently both TV and LCD are on, but resolutions are off.... | 04:52 |
| * majoridiot is buried with the firewire primer atm... and just about out of steam. | 04:53 | |
| Stemming78 | Using the default xorg.conf | 04:53 |
| Stemming78 | np major! | 04:53 |
| Dar1us | if X already groks them then you should be able to change res with xrandr or some gui tool | 04:54 |
| majoridiot | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4608647#post4608647 | 04:58 |
| Stemming78 | Dar1us: Tried the Display settings and that made it worse... Not sure which display res is being used, but it seems as if it is for a widescreen | 04:59 |
| Stemming78 | So, it works just doesnt feel completed. | 04:59 |
| Dar1us | odd | 05:00 |
| Dar1us | pastebin the output of xrandr? | 05:00 |
| Stemming78 | var/log/? | 05:00 |
| Dar1us | xrandr --screen 1 --prop | 05:00 |
| Dar1us | and xrandr --screen 0 --prop | 05:01 |
| majoridiot | are you xrandr-ey, baby? | 05:01 |
| Stemming78 | nothing shows on the screen. Does it write to a log? | 05:03 |
| Dar1us | odd | 05:04 |
| Dar1us | it should dump what resolutions the displays can do | 05:05 |
| Stemming78 | yah... Actually, it didnt open a new line; just fashed then back to the same $ prompt | 05:05 |
| Dar1us | the output from my laptop looks like.. http://pastebin.ca/961779 | 05:06 |
| majoridiot | Stemming78, try redirecting it to a log file? | 05:06 |
| Stemming78 | Thank you... did not have a space w/ between "screen 0" | 05:07 |
| Dar1us | ahh | 05:08 |
| Dar1us | learn to read :) | 05:08 |
| * majoridiot recommends the fine art of cut-and-paste to Stemming78 | 05:08 | |
| Stemming78 | I am on the Vista box, thanks idiot; cannot run that command from a SSH session | 05:09 |
| Dar1us | ahh | 05:09 |
| Dar1us | well you could | 05:09 |
| Dar1us | log in locally and do xhost + | 05:09 |
| Dar1us | then inyour putty do | 05:09 |
| Dar1us | export DISPLAY=:0 | 05:09 |
| * majoridiot runs before Stemming78's computer asplodes | 05:10 | |
| Stemming78 | http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/6182/ | 05:11 |
| Stemming78 | HAH | 05:11 |
| Dar1us | is that run locally? | 05:12 |
| Dar1us | or via putty? | 05:12 |
| Stemming78 | local, but same output w/ putty | 05:12 |
| Stemming78 | thanks for the command... like that | 05:12 |
| Dar1us | well that says you onlyhave one screen | 05:12 |
| Dar1us | you could try xrandr -d :1 --prop too | 05:13 |
| Dar1us | ie xrandr -d :1 --prop | 05:13 |
| Stemming78 | didnt like either command --- at help | 05:13 |
| Dar1us | pastebin what it says | 05:13 |
| Stemming78 | Can't open display :1 | 05:14 |
| Stemming78 | xrandr -d :1 --prop | 05:14 |
| Dar1us | ok | 05:14 |
| * majoridiot is burnt. | 05:14 | |
| Dar1us | X thinks you only have 1 display | 05:14 |
| majoridiot | nite guys. | 05:14 |
| Stemming78 | k, but some how both screens are displaying ---> just not correctly | 05:15 |
| Stemming78 | you wish to see the xorg? | 05:15 |
| Dar1us | well the video card is probably mirroring them automagically | 05:15 |
| Dar1us | but that means you can only have 1 resolution.. | 05:16 |
| Stemming78 | so, If I were to remove the VGA mon, the video would go out? | 05:16 |
| Dar1us | your LCD panel would have a native res, without it it will look crappy | 05:16 |
| Dar1us | no I don't think that would happen | 05:16 |
| Stemming78 | Here is my situation, I dont want to reinstall again... Been doing that tooo many times... | 05:16 |
| Dar1us | I wasn't suggesting you reinstall.. | 05:16 |
| Stemming78 | This box is destined to be setup in my bedroom and be connected to the TV only. If wireless goes down. I will need to be able to fix (cannot on a TV - resolution) so the LCD will be needed at that time. | 05:17 |
| Stemming78 | Could have an xorg set to have both? or will I need to # fields not in use | 05:18 |
| Dar1us | can you explain what the problem is now? | 05:18 |
| Dar1us | the TV looks bad or the LCD looks bad? | 05:18 |
| Stemming78 | Yah, that is why I dont wish to mess w/ the Xorg as everytime I do, I have to reinstall | 05:18 |
| Stemming78 | Currently dpi looks good on both.... Mouse travels out of screen (btm, left, right) | 05:19 |
| Stemming78 | Hence, resolution is no good (cutting off about an inch at each local). | 05:20 |
| Dar1us | odd | 05:20 |
| Dar1us | press the auto button on your LCD? | 05:20 |
| Dar1us | I am not sure what knobs there are for tuning the TV out for epia | 05:20 |
| Stemming78 | No change... Xorg does not have any references to resolution | 05:21 |
| Stemming78 | Think you can set the resolution from within xorg; but I already tried this (wrong field) and crashed and burned... | 05:21 |
| Stemming78 | I am covered in blood ATM | 05:22 |
| Dar1us | I dunno then sorry | 05:22 |
| Stemming78 | bad wipeout | 05:22 |
| Dar1us | I don't have a problem with pressing ctrl-alt-f1 and editing the file directly.. | 05:22 |
| Stemming78 | huh? | 05:23 |
| Dar1us | nevermind.. | 05:23 |
| Stemming78 | still learning | 05:23 |
| Dar1us | i think you need to find someone with epia experiencce | 05:23 |
| Stemming78 | Ok, well thanks for trying.../ | 05:24 |
| Stemming78 | Have a good evening.... Going to setup the wifi and take to the bedroom and watch some skin | 05:25 |
| Stemming78 | ;-) | 05:25 |
| Dar1us | heh cya | 05:25 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | is there a way to get rid of the bar with the application menu at the top of the screen? | 05:33 |
| === MythbuntuGuest86 is now known as JoshT76 | ||
| JoshT76 | hello | 05:43 |
| JoshT76 | has anyone experienced the desktop not filling the entire screen with an nvidia card? | 05:43 |
| JoshT76 | 7950gt specificall | 05:43 |
| JoshT76 | y | 05:44 |
| JoshT76 | anyone here | 05:48 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | no one has said anything for a while, i asked how to get rid of the task bar from the top of the screen but no answer in a half hour or so | 05:50 |
| JoshT76 | ok | 05:52 |
| Stemming78 | MythbuntuGuest97: Are you seeing the app bar while in Myth? | 06:03 |
| Stemming78 | JoshT76: have you tried loading the proprietary driver in MCC | 06:04 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | yes im seeing it while in myth, which is annoying | 09:11 |
| sebrock | After I updated MythWeb music and video sections are not to be seen anymore? | 12:45 |
| sebrock | not even from settings | 12:45 |
| ahave | hello room. anyone here have an antec fusion black 430 case with working IR receiver? | 15:07 |
| rhpot1991 | I have a silver working | 15:07 |
| ahave | did you have to do anything special to configure? | 15:08 |
| ahave | and what remote do you have? | 15:09 |
| rhpot1991 | one of the MCE usb2 models | 15:09 |
| rhpot1991 | here is what I did: setup irmon vfd/lcd in MCC | 15:10 |
| rhpot1991 | then run sudo /etc/init.d/lirc stop | 15:10 |
| rhpot1991 | then go to your home directory and run sudo irrecord -d /dev/lirc0 lircd.conf | 15:11 |
| ahave | could you explain how to setup irmon in MCC? | 15:11 |
| rhpot1991 | follow that, do all your buttons, go twist the wheel | 15:11 |
| rhpot1991 | ahave: MCC == mythbuntu control centre | 15:11 |
| rhpot1991 | launch that, its on the IR tab | 15:11 |
| ahave | right | 15:11 |
| ahave | and i have selected a MCE driver | 15:11 |
| ahave | i am using a remote that came with a hauppauge pvr-500 | 15:12 |
| ahave | i believe it to be a MCE remote | 15:12 |
| ahave | perhaps i can selecting the wrong driver? | 15:13 |
| zabadapp | rhpot1991: the VFD crashes after a few ir-codes from either my tv-remote (changing volume etc on the tv), or my hauppage remote (trying to get it to work with the built in ir-eye). | 15:14 |
| EvilGuru | ahave: I think the pvr-500 remove is the same as the pvr-150 one | 15:14 |
| ahave | EvilGuru, ok. so should i select a MCE driver or a hauppauge one? | 15:14 |
| zabadapp | rhpot1991: lcdproc stops to function and dumps an error message to the syslog (about 10 lines per second) | 15:15 |
| EvilGuru | Try setting it as the 150 one | 15:15 |
| EvilGuru | (I would be more helpful, but my system is not booted up) | 15:15 |
| zabadapp | rhpot1991: do you know what that could be? since you got it working :) | 15:15 |
| ahave | EvilGuru, I only have 3 options under hauppauge... DVB-s card, Nova-T 500, and TV-card | 15:16 |
| EvilGuru | try tv card | 15:16 |
| ahave | should i generate dynamic button mapping? | 15:16 |
| rhpot1991 | if you want it to work, select the imon VFD/LCD one | 15:17 |
| rhpot1991 | then you can test your remotes by doing sudo cat /dev/lirc0 | 15:17 |
| rhpot1991 | if garbage shows up, it can read your remote | 15:17 |
| rhpot1991 | then you just need to irrecord to make your config | 15:17 |
| rhpot1991 | gotta walk my dogs, I'll be back in a bit | 15:17 |
| ahave | i do not see the 'imon VFD/LCD' one | 15:18 |
| ahave | my remote looks kinda like this... http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/mceusb/PVR_500_MCE.jpg | 15:26 |
| abarbaccia | what type of remotes do people use? i was debating getting something good | 15:28 |
| directhex | sony ps3 remote! | 15:29 |
| abarbaccia | yeah? did u build a receiver | 15:30 |
| directhex | it's called "bluetooth". why build a receiver | 15:30 |
| abarbaccia | i was unaware. so how did you get that to interface with lirc | 15:31 |
| directhex | i didn't. keyboard emulation. | 15:31 |
| abarbaccia | interesting approach. runs into problems though if you use more than one application like mythtv + xine + mplayer, right? | 15:32 |
| directhex | if the keyboard maps vary, yes | 15:32 |
| directhex | fortunately, i don't run more than one application | 15:32 |
| abarbaccia | yeah - it would be interesting to see the direction of the lirc package as bluetooth becomes a more viable option | 15:32 |
| abarbaccia | i think its going to be more of an interface daemon not just IR | 15:33 |
| directhex | lirc is a relic. it needs replacing from scratch | 15:33 |
| abarbaccia | directhex i wouldn't say that. it's a very usable package | 15:33 |
| directhex | it's not remotely usable. compiling per-system kernel packages is not usable | 15:34 |
| ahave | i have my remotes setup so that I can read them, now how do i map the buttons to actions? | 15:34 |
| abarbaccia | true, but what other choice do you have? | 15:35 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: .lirc | 15:35 |
| ahave | do i have to use irrecord? | 15:35 |
| abarbaccia | do you have configuration files already | 15:35 |
| ahave | idk | 15:35 |
| abarbaccia | because there is a configuration file saying "this hex code = this button" | 15:35 |
| ahave | i think i found my remote here: http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/mceusb/ | 15:35 |
| abarbaccia | directhex you have a good point. but it does get the job done | 15:35 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: good. did you install that file, etc | 15:36 |
| ahave | no i have not | 15:36 |
| ahave | can you link me to a guide? or is just a simple copy | 15:36 |
| ahave | i could not find that file in the MCC | 15:36 |
| abarbaccia | what ubuntu are you using? | 15:36 |
| directhex | abarbaccia, so did the 2.2 kernel, MKNOD, and XF86Config-4. but we've moved on since then | 15:36 |
| ahave | 7.10 | 15:37 |
| abarbaccia | directhex agreed. i'm interested in seeing where its gonna go esp because more people are using remotes with computers, etc | 15:37 |
| directhex | i've seen snippets of code to handle remotes in dbus. i'll wait & see, i think | 15:37 |
| ahave | abarbaccia, MCC claims to be using the mceusb config file | 15:37 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: run "irw" and then push buttons on your remote - do you get output? | 15:37 |
| ahave | abarbaccia, no i do not | 15:38 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: run lsmod | grep lirc -- are the modules loaded? | 15:38 |
| ahave | abarbaccia, but i do with cat /dev/lirc0 | 15:38 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: you want to look at your /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file | 15:39 |
| ahave | abarbaccia, lsmod | grep lirc -- leads me to think that modules are not loaded.. i only have information next to the last 3 lines, the frist 3 have the text '0' | 15:40 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: you want to see what remote control file its defining. and look at the lircd process (ps aux | grep lircd) to make sure its loading the right now | 15:40 |
| boritek | Hello i have just installed mythtv on ubuntu gutsy, and it says: no UPnP backends found | 15:40 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: if they are listed, then they are loaded | 15:40 |
| boritek | if i click it further: another message: cannot login to database? | 15:40 |
| abarbaccia | boritek: you need to setup you db connection and dont worry about the uPNP right now | 15:41 |
| boritek | boritek, how can i do that? | 15:41 |
| abarbaccia | did you just ask youself? | 15:42 |
| ahave | abarbaccia, what do i need to loof for in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file | 15:42 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: that's what defines how the driver is loaded - which modules and what arguments. is lircd running? (ps aux | grep lirc) | 15:43 |
| ahave | abarbaccia, i get 2 lines outputed after (ps aux | grep lirc) | 15:43 |
| ahave | one with root, the other with my username | 15:43 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: well, you only need one running and it should be root | 15:44 |
| abarbaccia | so kill that other one | 15:44 |
| ahave | the one as root is /usr/sbin/lircd--device=/dev/lirc0 | 15:44 |
| boritek | abarbaccia, how can i set up the db connection? | 15:44 |
| ahave | abarbaccia, is that correct? | 15:45 |
| abarbaccia | boritek: run mythtv-setup | 15:45 |
| boritek | i have already done that | 15:45 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: is that the only argument that's being passed to it? | 15:45 |
| boritek | that is when it tells the error | 15:45 |
| boritek | that i mentioned above | 15:45 |
| abarbaccia | boritek: okay, there's a file somewhere that it reads for the initial connection. let me try to locate where it is | 15:46 |
| ahave | abarbaccia, yes. i believe so.. let me see if i can post the output somewhere | 15:46 |
| abarbaccia | boritek: i can't seem to find it.... but theres a file somewhere that spells out the the initial connections | 15:47 |
| abarbaccia | boritek: its in /usr or /home i think | 15:47 |
| boritek | abarbaccia, /home/you/.mythtv/mysql.txt? | 15:48 |
| ahave | abarbaccia, http://www.rafb.net/p/IjCxY979.html | 15:48 |
| abarbaccia | boritek: yes | 15:49 |
| boritek | ok, what shal i do now, | 15:49 |
| boritek | ? | 15:49 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: that file is not loading the configuration file. it needs to be like "lircd --device=/dev/lirc0 /path/to/myremote.conf" | 15:50 |
| abarbaccia | boritek: make sure that has the correct information | 15:50 |
| ahave | abarbaccia, ok. so i need to chanage that in the /etc/lirc/hardware/conf file? | 15:50 |
| boritek | abarbaccia, i dont know, coz i never used mysql earlier | 15:50 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: that would be the best way | 15:50 |
| boritek | it came with the mythtv package | 15:50 |
| abarbaccia | boritek: sorry - i gotta run. but you gotta get mythtv what it needs to login to the database | 15:51 |
| ahave | abarbaccia, is there another way? | 15:51 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: you can test by just starting the daemon by yourself | 15:51 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: i gotta run but you can just type "sudo lircd <arguments | 15:51 |
| abarbaccia | >" | 15:51 |
| boritek | i guess i have to setup mysql somehow first. but i dont know how | 15:52 |
| abarbaccia | boritek: it's all part of the game | 15:52 |
| ahave | does it just take the .conf as an argument? | 15:52 |
| abarbaccia | ahave: man lircd - but yes | 15:53 |
| ahave | abarbaccia, ok. thanks alot! | 15:53 |
| boritek | abarbaccia, is there a setup GUI for mysql? | 15:54 |
| rhpot1991 | ahave: you don't have any imon in MCC? | 16:02 |
| ahave | correct | 16:02 |
| rhpot1991 | you need imon for the onboard receiever if you choose mce it will look for an external usb dongle | 16:02 |
| ahave | hmm | 16:03 |
| ahave | so why is imon not listed? and how can i add? | 16:03 |
| rhpot1991 | are you actually seeing /dev/lirc0 when you choose mce? | 16:03 |
| ahave | under modules? or config? | 16:04 |
| rhpot1991 | under /dev/lirc0 | 16:04 |
| rhpot1991 | cd /dev/ | 16:04 |
| ahave | oh | 16:04 |
| rhpot1991 | ls -la lirc* | 16:04 |
| ahave | one sec | 16:04 |
| ahave | http://www.rafb.net/p/9OSXhO58.html | 16:06 |
| rhpot1991 | if you sudo cat /dev/lirc0 | 16:06 |
| rhpot1991 | and hit buttons on your remote does it show junk on the screen | 16:06 |
| ahave | yup | 16:06 |
| ahave | and with the knob | 16:07 |
| rhpot1991 | ok, now run irw | 16:07 |
| ahave | but if i run irw | 16:07 |
| rhpot1991 | and see if anythign happens | 16:07 |
| ahave | it does not | 16:07 |
| ahave | nothing | 16:07 |
| rhpot1991 | what happens then just empyt, but it continues to run? | 16:07 |
| ahave | it just sits there | 16:07 |
| rhpot1991 | ok good | 16:07 |
| rhpot1991 | do sudo /etc/init.d/lirc stop | 16:07 |
| rhpot1991 | then go to your home dir and do sudo irrecord -d /dev/lirc0 lircd.conf | 16:08 |
| rhpot1991 | follow that, do your buttons and knob | 16:08 |
| rhpot1991 | then copy that to /etc/lirc | 16:08 |
| rhpot1991 | then run mythbuntu-lircrc-generator | 16:08 |
| rhpot1991 | then restart | 16:08 |
| ahave | so i must remap my entire remote? | 16:08 |
| ahave | is there not a config file already made/ | 16:08 |
| rhpot1991 | there might be, but its easier to just make one instead of messing with ones that may or may not work | 16:09 |
| rhpot1991 | I can give you mine, but who knows if it has all the buttons, and who knows if it will work since I used lirc_imon | 16:09 |
| rhpot1991 | it only takes like 5 minutes to map your buttons | 16:09 |
| ahave | ok, i will just do it then | 16:09 |
| ahave | is there a guide on how to map? | 16:10 |
| rhpot1991 | then you can go in and tweak .lircrc | 16:10 |
| rhpot1991 | check your home dir for .lircrc | 16:10 |
| rhpot1991 | I think in your version you don't have a .lirc folder yet | 16:10 |
| ahave | hmm | 16:11 |
| ahave | i see a lircd.conf | 16:11 |
| ahave | but it is empty | 16:11 |
| rhpot1991 | in your home directory? | 16:12 |
| ahave | yes | 16:12 |
| rhpot1991 | do you have a mythtv user on there? | 16:12 |
| ahave | use | 16:12 |
| ahave | yes | 16:12 |
| rhpot1991 | run this | 16:12 |
| rhpot1991 | locate .lircrc | 16:12 |
| rhpot1991 | and go check the places that points at | 16:12 |
| ahave | not found | 16:12 |
| rhpot1991 | whatever user runs the frontend, thats where you want to change it | 16:12 |
| rhpot1991 | check /home/mythtv then | 16:13 |
| rhpot1991 | there should be one right in the home dir, and one within the .mythtv directory inside that users home dir | 16:13 |
| ahave | mythtv has nothing in the folder | 16:13 |
| rhpot1991 | .files are hidden | 16:13 |
| ahave | oh | 16:13 |
| rhpot1991 | do a ls -la .lir* | 16:13 |
| ahave | ok, i have one in mythtv | 16:14 |
| rhpot1991 | check and see if there is one in your home dir as well | 16:15 |
| rhpot1991 | if mlg makes one there you may need to copy it over | 16:15 |
| rhpot1991 | or symlink the 2 | 16:15 |
| ahave | there is not one in the home dir | 16:15 |
| rhpot1991 | you *might* need to run mythbuntu-lircrc-generator as mythtv then | 16:16 |
| rhpot1991 | sudo su mythtv | 16:16 |
| rhpot1991 | will let you switch to them | 16:16 |
| ahave | ok, i ran it | 16:17 |
| ahave | i still need to map my button tho | 16:18 |
| rhpot1991 | you need to do the irrecord first | 16:18 |
| rhpot1991 | and move the lircd.conf into /etc/lirc | 16:18 |
| ahave | so let me understand what i am doing.. | 16:18 |
| ahave | i need to run irrecord to generate the lircd.conf? | 16:18 |
| rhpot1991 | yep | 16:19 |
| rhpot1991 | then move it to /etc/lirc/ | 16:20 |
| rhpot1991 | then run mlg | 16:20 |
| rhpot1991 | then reboot | 16:20 |
| ahave | mlg being mythbuntu-lircrc-generator? | 16:20 |
| ahave | as mythtv | 16:21 |
| rhpot1991 | I'm not positive on that, but based on the fact its in your mythtv users dir I would do so | 16:21 |
| ahave | ok | 16:21 |
| ahave | so what is the use of this file? http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb | 16:22 |
| rhpot1991 | if you had mceusb that would be fine and dandy | 16:23 |
| rhpot1991 | but you have the IR in the antec fusion | 16:23 |
| rhpot1991 | go buy a mce usb if you want to use that | 16:23 |
| ahave | ah, ok | 16:24 |
| ahave | so it is a combonation of what IR i am using and the remote? | 16:24 |
| ahave | (which makes sense) | 16:24 |
| rhpot1991 | yes | 16:24 |
| rhpot1991 | and all that is is a file that someone made already | 16:25 |
| rhpot1991 | you are just doing the same for your setup | 16:25 |
| rhpot1991 | instead of downloading one | 16:25 |
| ahave | ok, i understand why i am using irrecord now | 16:25 |
| ahave | thanks | 16:25 |
| ahave | do you know of a guide on how to use irrecord? | 16:25 |
| rhpot1991 | first stop lirc | 16:27 |
| rhpot1991 | sudo /etc/lirc.d/lirc stop | 16:27 |
| rhpot1991 | then | 16:27 |
| rhpot1991 | sudo irrecord -d /dev/lirc0 <name of config> | 16:27 |
| rhpot1991 | and just follow what it tells you | 16:27 |
| rhpot1991 | make sure you remember to do your knob | 16:27 |
| rhpot1991 | I had to redo mine cause I kept forgetting it | 16:27 |
| ahave | set the knob as volume? | 16:28 |
| rhpot1991 | you just name buttons for now | 16:28 |
| rhpot1991 | so name it knob_left and knob_right or something | 16:28 |
| ahave | ah, ok | 16:28 |
| rhpot1991 | then you make that be volume in .lircrc later | 16:28 |
| ahave | is modifying the .lircrc difficult? | 16:28 |
| rhpot1991 | mythbuntu-lircrc-generator will do some of those for you, you will prob need to go in and modify if you named buttons oddly | 16:28 |
| rhpot1991 | or make a copy of the volume for your knobs | 16:29 |
| rhpot1991 | nope, its pretty easy, there is lots of documentation out there as well | 16:29 |
| rhpot1991 | I gotta run, good luck | 16:29 |
| ahave | thanks! | 16:29 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | how do i keep the app bar from showing when myth is running? | 16:32 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, turn off compiz | 16:34 |
| superm1 | or use something like devilspie to keep it on top | 16:34 |
| TelnetManta | guys, how do I fix this? " Please set the environment variable HOME or MYTHCONFDIR" | 16:39 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | in mcc i have auto start mythtv standalone session upon boot, i didnt realize compiz was running, how do i disable it? | 16:43 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, well is this a normal mythbuntu install? | 16:47 |
| superm1 | or what is this? | 16:47 |
| superm1 | I was assuming that it wasn't | 16:47 |
| superm1 | :) | 16:47 |
| superm1 | TelnetManta, depends whne you are getting that | 16:47 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | yes it was, then upgraded to hardy, i had to fix some things like sound, then video was black and white, but no thats working | 16:47 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, well that shouldn't be happening then.. | 16:48 |
| superm1 | did you launch some other stuff at the same time as myth? | 16:48 |
| superm1 | it usually should absolve itself | 16:48 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | no i havent done anything except select generic kernel and delete the 386 kernel because of sound issues | 16:49 |
| mpontillo | So, I wanted to set up my mythbuntu machine to have an Xvnc display, :1. It went mostly OK, until I realized that mythfrontend gets started automatically on all X sessions.... really, I only want mythfrontend to run on my main display. As a workaround, I hacked this up in /usr/bin/mythfrontend: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/6190/ | 16:49 |
| mpontillo | Can anyone think of a better way to do this? I don't really want to be modifying that every upgrade... | 16:50 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | then unselected nvidias driver rebooted, then reselected nvidias driver to get color back again, but the app bar was ontop even before i did any of that | 16:50 |
| mpontillo | Or maybe a more 'supported' solution... | 16:50 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, if you close myth and open it back up,, does that still happen? | 16:50 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | just a minute let me check | 16:51 |
| superm1 | mpontillo, hm | 16:51 |
| superm1 | well it shouldn't autostart on all displays necessarily, depends on what session you log into i'd expect | 16:51 |
| mpontillo | ah, right. it didn't start until I launched gnome-session | 16:51 |
| mpontillo | still, I guess for some reason I only expected it to launch with Xfce | 16:52 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | yeah the bar is still on top | 16:52 |
| superm1 | mpontillo, well any session that obeys ~/.config/autostart rules will start it | 16:52 |
| superm1 | it was done that way to be extensible if someone doesn't want Xfce | 16:52 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, hm interesting.. | 16:53 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, well so as to rule it out, can you pastebin your process list? | 16:53 |
| superm1 | lets see what's running | 16:53 |
| superm1 | that might be interfering | 16:53 |
| mpontillo | is there a use case for auto-starting it on a display other than :0.0, though? I mean, do people actually run mythfrontend on a remote display? | 16:53 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | ok, command? | 16:53 |
| sebrock | since 0.21 and a mythweb update from rep. I cant see my music or videos in MythWeb... http://localhost/music tells me "An unknown module was specified" | 16:54 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, ps aux | 16:54 |
| sebrock | but I have music in my /modules under mythweb | 16:54 |
| sebrock | any ideas? | 16:54 |
| superm1 | mpontillo, well not everyone runs :0.0 as their primary display | 16:54 |
| superm1 | say that you log out, and the session doesn't finish exiting by the time a new one starts | 16:54 |
| superm1 | it will be on :1.0 then | 16:54 |
| TelnetManta | superm1: Im getting it when starting the backend | 16:55 |
| superm1 | how? | 16:55 |
| superm1 | via the init script? | 16:55 |
| mpontillo | Ah, I have never seen it be anything except :0.0 on my system. I thought when you log out it kills and restarts the X server and it comes back on :0 | 16:55 |
| superm1 | that's the goal when you log out | 16:55 |
| superm1 | some drivers aren't so nice (i've seen it happen on both nvidia and fglrx) | 16:55 |
| superm1 | so you can't make the assumption that someone is running on display :0 | 16:56 |
| superm1 | also if you do a fast user switch | 16:56 |
| mpontillo | gotcha. any other way to detect a local display? | 16:56 |
| superm1 | the new user gets display :1.0 | 16:56 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | http://pastebin.com/m10ffda11 | 16:56 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | thats cool, im never sure what i can copy and paste from vnc | 16:56 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, try ps aux | cat | 16:57 |
| superm1 | instead | 16:57 |
| superm1 | since a lot got cut off | 16:57 |
| superm1 | mpontillo, hm. | 16:57 |
| mpontillo | sounds like the only thing I can do is set a DONTSTARTMYTH environment variable or similar in my script to start Xvnc, and check for that | 16:58 |
| mpontillo | but I'd still have to check in a wrapper script to avoid messing with the distributed mythfrontend script | 16:59 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | http://pastebin.com/m8befb85 | 17:00 |
| superm1 | mpontillo, try setting IGNORE_NOT to 1 | 17:01 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, you've got a bunch of gnome services on there too | 17:02 |
| superm1 | that's a bit odd... | 17:02 |
| superm1 | like tracker | 17:02 |
| superm1 | and printer support | 17:02 |
| superm1 | and power manager | 17:02 |
| superm1 | is that intended? | 17:02 |
| mpontillo | ha - IGNORE_NOT - nice hack. wonder why that's there. thanks, will try | 17:03 |
| superm1 | IGNORE_NOT is in place for a bunch of user and group management checking | 17:03 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | after upgrading to hardy, ubuntu desktop was sellected in desktop role, i dont know why or even if it was before, i dont need it, its only a frontend, with no keyboard or anything attached, the only way i have to control it is ssh, vnc, irremote, and my nintendoDS | 17:04 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | can i deselect ubuntu desktop from destop role? | 17:05 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, it was selected during the upgrade!?.. That's Bad (TM) | 17:05 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, as a side note, you'll need to file a bug on that with /var/log/update-manager/* | 17:05 |
| TelnetManta | superm1: Should I set MYTHCONFDIR to /home/mythtv or /home/mythtv/.mythtv ???? | 17:06 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | im not positive, i hadent done anything with it for 4-5 months so i dont remember if it was on there before or not | 17:06 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, you can unselect ubuntu desktop though yes, and then in synaptic a bunch should be 'autoremovable' | 17:06 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, well it shouldn't be turned on from an upgrade | 17:06 |
| TelnetManta | i tried the first and the backend still wont start | 17:06 |
| superm1 | if it did, we have a big problem | 17:06 |
| superm1 | TelnetManta, you still didn't respond to my question | 17:06 |
| superm1 | how are you starting the backend | 17:06 |
| TelnetManta | didnt see it sry | 17:06 |
| TelnetManta | via an init script | 17:07 |
| superm1 | okay so something like sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start | 17:07 |
| superm1 | the home directory is set to /home/mythtv/ by default | 17:07 |
| superm1 | it gets set in that init script | 17:07 |
| TelnetManta | superm1: I start it in my script like this: /usr/local/bin/mythbackend -d 2>$LOGDIR/mythbackend.err >$LOGDIR/mythbackend.log | 17:08 |
| superm1 | TelnetManta, use the packaged init script | 17:08 |
| superm1 | its got multiple workarounds for behavior like you are experiencing | 17:08 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | ok i have the synaptic package manager open, how do i go about 'autoremoving"? | 17:09 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, there is a filter or something similar in the left side | 17:10 |
| superm1 | for "autoremovable" | 17:10 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | the buttons are (Sections, Status, Origin, Custom Filters, and Search Results) | 17:12 |
| superm1 | yeah I forget which one has the autoremovable one | 17:12 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | then there is a scrolling list with lots of catagories but no autoremove in it | 17:12 |
| superm1 | hm | 17:12 |
| superm1 | the same one with the "local or obsolete" | 17:13 |
| superm1 | is where it shows up | 17:13 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | ok status, has local or obsolete | 17:13 |
| superm1 | but no auto removable... | 17:13 |
| superm1 | hm | 17:13 |
| TelnetManta | somehow I screwed the system up while trying to edit some chan numbers via mythweb..... | 17:14 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | the choices are (All, Installed(local or obsolete), installed(upgradable), Not installed, not installed(residual config) | 17:14 |
| TelnetManta | how can I get the packaged init script without installing the whole package? remember my install is from source. | 17:14 |
| superm1 | TelnetManta, i didn't remember that your install is from source | 17:18 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, then they aren't showing up as autoremovable | 17:18 |
| superm1 | you can search for gnome stuff though | 17:19 |
| superm1 | and start removing items like that | 17:19 |
| superm1 | if it doesnt want to take out mythbuntu-desktop it should be safe to remove | 17:19 |
| superm1 | TelnetManta, you should do your install from a local debuild if you want all the advantages of the package but the newer stuff by installing from source | 17:19 |
| TelnetManta | tx superm1 | 17:23 |
| TelnetManta | I have some complications if you remember from waaay back | 17:23 |
| TelnetManta | I have some patches that I have to run. I think I read online that theres been some patches made for the packaged version though but I havent tested it yet. | 17:24 |
| mpontillo | guess I shouldn't start pidgin on the X session I'm experimenting with. ;) Anyway, something sets IGNORE_NOT back to 0. So that hack doesn't work. =( | 17:25 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | how about gamin? can i remove it? | 17:26 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | it brings up a whole list of stuf its going to remove, xfdesktop4 is one of them | 17:27 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | maybe i shouldnt, thunar is one of them | 17:28 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | i probably shouldnt remove anything that will remove gdm either, eh? | 17:28 |
| majoridiot | FIREWIRE TESTERS NEEDED -- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4608647#post4608647 -- please help out the community by testing the new firewire primer... your current mythtv installation will not be affected or changed in any way. | 17:35 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, anything that wants to remove mythbuntu-desktop , xfce stuff | 17:36 |
| superm1 | gdm | 17:36 |
| superm1 | no dont take out | 17:36 |
| superm1 | but other stuff is fine | 17:36 |
| superm1 | TelnetManta, well i'm saying you can apply your patches to the package's source | 17:36 |
| superm1 | and build it into nice debs | 17:36 |
| superm1 | mpontillo, hm | 17:37 |
| mpontillo | well, this worked: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/6192/ (different modification from the dislpay check) | 17:41 |
| sebrock | whats up with using sudo in the beta? | 17:42 |
| sebrock | "unable to resolve host: ubuntu" | 17:42 |
| superm1 | sebrock, did you have a failed install? | 17:43 |
| superm1 | or better yet | 17:43 |
| superm1 | did you select vnc during install? | 17:43 |
| superm1 | there was a bug with it.... | 17:43 |
| sebrock | yes I installed vnc server | 17:43 |
| superm1 | sebrock, there was a major bug in it | 17:43 |
| sebrock | what kind of bug is tat? | 17:43 |
| sebrock | lol | 17:43 |
| superm1 | that crashed the installer | 17:43 |
| superm1 | and it didn't finish the rest of the install steps | 17:43 |
| sebrock | well the installed didnt crash I think | 17:44 |
| sebrock | mm ok | 17:44 |
| superm1 | it might not look like it did | 17:44 |
| superm1 | but it crashes on VNC | 17:44 |
| superm1 | if you can redo your install and *not* pick vnc | 17:44 |
| sebrock | so redo without vnc then | 17:44 |
| superm1 | and just install it afterward | 17:44 |
| superm1 | you should be fine | 17:44 |
| sebrock | ok | 17:44 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | well im removing about 500meg of gnome stuff, hope i didnt accidently sellect something important, think the system will run a little faster after this? It seems is not able to decode as fast as it did before | 17:45 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, it should improve some. | 17:46 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, just so long as nothing xfce is picked | 17:46 |
| superm1 | and nothing myth* is picked | 17:46 |
| superm1 | you should be safe | 17:46 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | thats what i selected to keep, so i should be good | 17:46 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, you can also change your myth viewing profile | 17:47 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | by the way, i appreciate the help | 17:47 |
| superm1 | to slim instead | 17:47 |
| superm1 | that might help with decoding | 17:47 |
| superm1 | no prob | 17:47 |
| staind9383 | so my recordings won't play... not really sure when they stopped working, they were working a few days ago after i fixed my firewire stopped working issue | 17:51 |
| mpontillo | superm1: well, I just looked at the ~/.config/autostart/mythtv.desktop file you mentioned. Might be an even simpler solution in there: there is an X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=<boolean> line. If Xfce doesn't pay attention to that...! | 17:52 |
| superm1 | haha | 17:52 |
| superm1 | really? | 17:52 |
| mpontillo | we'll see ;) | 17:52 |
| staind9383 | right now i select one and the screen blinks like it is giong to play video, but returns to the recordings screen instantly | 17:52 |
| superm1 | firewire eh? | 17:53 |
| superm1 | majoridiot, ^ | 17:54 |
| staind9383 | yea, he was helping me the other night | 17:54 |
| majoridiot | jes? | 17:54 |
| staind9383 | i had to restart the cable box and the htpc in order to get everything up and functional again | 17:54 |
| staind9383 | so i get back home today the box is not working | 17:54 |
| * majoridiot remebers that, staind9383 | 17:54 | |
| majoridiot | staind9383, describe "not working" | 17:55 |
| staind9383 | hah | 17:55 |
| staind9383 | well | 17:55 |
| staind9383 | live tv, not working, but recordings are not working either | 17:55 |
| majoridiot | so likely not a firewire issue then... or recording would play ok. | 17:55 |
| staind9383 | again... this is out of nowhere.. i swear i didnt touch anything | 17:55 |
| staind9383 | right | 17:56 |
| staind9383 | these were all wroking before | 17:56 |
| majoridiot | ok... standard rap: what are your frontend and backend logs showing when it errors? | 17:56 |
| staind9383 | i have some good luck it seems | 17:56 |
| * majoridiot remebers helping fix it | 17:56 | |
| staind9383 | first thing i checked when live tv didnt work was plugreport, etc, but that shows OK, and the firewire tester works | 17:57 |
| mpontillo | Sweet - X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false did the trick! Xfce ignores it, so it does exactly what I want - start on my primary display but not my Xvnc display running gnome-session. Seems it's exactly the same as un-checking the "Enabled" box in System > Preferences > Sessions. | 17:57 |
| mpontillo | (which I would have done first, if I thought it would be specific to GNOME) | 17:58 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, speaking of which, i need your help testing the new firewire primer ASAP. i know it's a lot to ask, when yer box is outta whack, but it's critical time-wise and i PROMISE it will not hurt anything. | 17:58 |
| staind9383 | as a matter of fact, live tv is working... | 17:58 |
| staind9383 | so its only recorded tv now | 17:58 |
| staind9383 | blah | 17:58 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, but in the meantime, look @ your frontend and backend log for errors. | 17:58 |
| staind9383 | ok, yea send me the script / insturctions | 17:58 |
| majoridiot | LOL | 17:58 |
| majoridiot | maybe yer database wasn't up yer? | 17:59 |
| majoridiot | yet | 17:59 |
| staind9383 | dont know | 17:59 |
| staind9383 | i restarted the front end... looking throught htelogs now | 17:59 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, well, at least it's back up now. | 17:59 |
| staind9383 | 2008-03-29 13:58:21.873 AFD Error: avformat err(-1) on av_open_input_file call. | 17:59 |
| majoridiot | staind9383: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4608647#post4608647 | 18:00 |
| staind9383 | my handle on the forums is c3rb3rus... name was registered on IRC | 18:02 |
| staind9383 | well freenode | 18:02 |
| staind9383 | you know | 18:02 |
| staind9383 | 2008-03-29 13:58:21.873 Couldn't open decoder for: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2750_20080329010000.mpg | 18:03 |
| staind9383 | does not sound good | 18:03 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, does that recording exist and can you open it with mplayer? | 18:06 |
| staind9383 | as i browse the items in the recordings screen i get these: 2008-03-29 14:06:14.202 NVP: Couldn't find a matching decoder for: /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2750_20080329010000.mpg | 18:07 |
| staind9383 | for each one | 18:07 |
| staind9383 | -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 7791885036 2008-03-08 23:00 2740_20080308210000.mpg | 18:08 |
| staind9383 | yea its there | 18:08 |
| majoridiot | playable outside of myth? | 18:09 |
| superm1 | mpontillo, could you document this somewhere useful for folks? | 18:10 |
| superm1 | on one of the wikis perhaps | 18:10 |
| superm1 | or in the FAQ | 18:10 |
| mpontillo | sure, I'll see if I can find a good spot | 18:10 |
| staind9383 | majoridiot: the show i was tryin to watch there does not play in mplayer... another recording that i know worked last week shows only green but i can hear sound... | 18:11 |
| staind9383 | :-/ | 18:11 |
| majoridiot | hm. now that is strange. | 18:12 |
| majoridiot | no auto updates or anything since the last time it worked? | 18:12 |
| staind9383 | i dont think so | 18:13 |
| majoridiot | hm. | 18:13 |
| staind9383 | VLC does a similar thing on the vid files that i know worked.... only with NES style red / green alternate lines | 18:14 |
| majoridiot | try recording a minute or so of something and see if it will, and then if it will play back. | 18:14 |
| majoridiot | hm. if vlc does it, it makes me suspect the video driver. vlc uses its own codecs, afaik. | 18:14 |
| majoridiot | are there any strange errors in your Xorg.0.log? | 18:15 |
| staind9383 | what dir is that in? /etc/X11? | 18:16 |
| majoridiot | /var/log/ | 18:16 |
| staind9383 | there are no timestamps, but it just looks like initialization to me | 18:17 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, look for lines starting with EE and WW. EE are the most important, as they are errors. | 18:20 |
| staind9383 | none with EE | 18:21 |
| staind9383 | one WW toward the end | 18:21 |
| staind9383 | (WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBVisuals" is not used | 18:21 |
| staind9383 | and a few other warnings about vid modes not being used | 18:22 |
| majoridiot | well, you can remove/comment out the "AddARGB..." line from your xorg.conf. that much is apparent. | 18:25 |
| majoridiot | did you try making a new recording and watching it? | 18:26 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | ok finished removing all those packages and rebooted, still have the app bar | 18:26 |
| staind9383 | i was looking for the live tv snippet that i was watching before and couldn't find it | 18:27 |
| staind9383 | and now i cant getback into live tv.. i see lots of scrambled colors tehn it exits saying error encountered while displaying video | 18:27 |
| staind9383 | in the syslog i see lots of these from yesterday into today: | 18:27 |
| staind9383 | Mar 28 07:17:01 gearbox /USR/SBIN/CRON[8235]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) | 18:28 |
| staind9383 | Mar 28 07:36:05 gearbox -- MARK -- | 18:28 |
| staind9383 | Mar 28 07:39:01 gearbox /USR/SBIN/CRON[8380]: (root) CMD ( [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | | 18:28 |
| staind9383 | xargs -r -0 rm) | 18:28 |
| staind9383 | and i saw a random segfault for mythfilldatabast | 18:28 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, lol | 18:28 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, i guess you can't win? | 18:28 |
| superm1 | i'm not sure what else could be affecting that? | 18:29 |
| superm1 | gnome-session particularly is gone right? | 18:29 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | just check for gnome-session in the package manager? | 18:30 |
| superm1 | yah | 18:30 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | its not selected | 18:32 |
| staind9383 | its like mythtv just does not want to stay functional for me... it has so much potential... :( | 18:32 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, hmmp | 18:32 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, well next solution i can say then - | 18:33 |
| superm1 | blow away your changed settings for this user accnt | 18:33 |
| superm1 | in ~/.config | 18:33 |
| superm1 | and ~/.local | 18:33 |
| superm1 | so swithc into .config | 18:33 |
| superm1 | and look in Autostart | 18:33 |
| superm1 | make sure nothing crazy there | 18:33 |
| superm1 | and then remove the xfce directories from in there | 18:33 |
| superm1 | it rebuilds them on boot | 18:33 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | sorry you lost me, what should i do? | 18:34 |
| superm1 | cd ~/.config | 18:34 |
| superm1 | and then ls Autostart | 18:34 |
| superm1 | and then ls | 18:34 |
| superm1 | and see what's around | 18:34 |
| superm1 | blow away anything but the .config/Autostart stuff | 18:34 |
| staind9383 | so something is wrong with the codec that is rendering regular TV it seems... HD live tv plays ok... switching to a regular channel gives me sounds but messed up colors | 18:34 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | autostart has fusesmbnet.desktop and mythtv.desktop in it | 18:35 |
| superm1 | take out the fuse one | 18:36 |
| superm1 | that might just be it possibly :) | 18:36 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | how? | 18:36 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | i figured it out with rm | 18:37 |
| superm1 | ya | 18:37 |
| staind9383 | i'm tempted to reinstall all over again :-/ | 18:38 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | config has (autostart, gtk-2.0, tracker, user-dirs.local, xfce4-session, compiz, Thunar, user-dirs.dir, and xfce4) | 18:38 |
| superm1 | compiz? | 18:42 |
| superm1 | interesting.. | 18:42 |
| superm1 | i didnt see it in your process list | 18:42 |
| superm1 | is it installed/ | 18:42 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | i think its one of the things i uninstalled, let me check | 18:44 |
| superm1 | okay well nonetheless, you can blow away all those directories but the autostart | 18:44 |
| superm1 | and then hit <ctrl><alt><backspace> | 18:44 |
| superm1 | and let it log back in | 18:44 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | there are still some compiz stuff in synaptic i can remove them right? | 18:44 |
| superm1 | urd | 18:44 |
| superm1 | yes | 18:45 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | what is the command for removing directories? | 18:48 |
| staind9383 | rmdir? | 18:49 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | thats it but doesnt work if there is anything in the directory | 18:50 |
| majoridiot | rm -rf /directory | 18:50 |
| staind9383 | rm -R? | 18:50 |
| majoridiot | but be careful with that. | 18:50 |
| staind9383 | i'm tempted to rm -rf / | 18:50 |
| staind9383 | stupid video not working | 18:50 |
| staind9383 | haha | 18:51 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | maybe ill just use thunar so i dont screw something up | 18:51 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, that'll fix everything... for good. but not in a good way. ;) | 18:51 |
| majoridiot | MythbuntuGuest97, good idea. | 18:51 |
| superm1 | when getting mythbuntu live disks built one of the first steps is to cleanup the directory,v well i mis-set one of the variables, and it accidently did rm -rf / | 18:51 |
| superm1 | when it should have done | 18:51 |
| superm1 | rm -rf $DIRECTORY/ | 18:51 |
| superm1 | yeah oops. | 18:51 |
| majoridiot | MythbuntuGuest97, it's a good idea to go with what you feel safe with. you may need to sudo thunar for files/dirs you need permission for. | 18:52 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | ok how about the two files, user-dirs.dirs and user-dirs.local? should i remove them as well? | 18:52 |
| staind9383 | yea, that might be a prob | 18:52 |
| staind9383 | what is thunar? | 18:52 |
| majoridiot | MythbuntuGuest97, sudo thunar will run as root and allow deletion of files you do not have permissions for. | 18:52 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | i have permission for stuff in ~ | 18:53 |
| majoridiot | thunar is the file manager mythbunu installs default | 18:53 |
| majoridiot | MythbuntuGuest97, probably not for everything- including mostly the hidden system files. | 18:53 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | well it worked this time, so thats all that matters, what about the two files superm1? do i delete them as well? | 18:54 |
| staind9383 | so i think taht soemthing got corrupted with whatever codec is doing standard def video... or just video in general.. i just played one of the media files on another comp just fine | 18:54 |
| majoridiot | the newest binary for mythprime is posted if anyone cares to try it: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4608647#post4608647 | 18:54 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest97, which worked? | 18:55 |
| superm1 | deleting which particularly? | 18:55 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | i mean that i was able to delete in thunar without sudo | 18:55 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | so you want me to delete the two files as well and leave just the autostart directory in ,config? | 18:56 |
| superm1 | so just delete anything but the autostart | 18:57 |
| superm1 | in .config | 18:57 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | no im not sure, will ctrl + alt + backspace work in vnc or will it just restart the computer im on? | 18:58 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | um, i mean NOW im not sure | 18:58 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | ill just reboot, no confusion then | 18:59 |
| majoridiot | MythbuntuGuest97- | 18:59 |
| majoridiot | open a terminal on the remote computer- | 19:00 |
| majoridiot | sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart | 19:00 |
| majoridiot | to restart the X server, et.al. | 19:00 |
| staind9383 | majoridiot: dumb question... what flags whould i use on the tar command to extract.. i can never remember | 19:01 |
| majoridiot | should just be able to double-click it in thunar | 19:01 |
| staind9383 | no dice, says unknown application | 19:02 |
| * majoridiot will add the untar commands to the post in a minute... | 19:02 | |
| staind9383 | open with rather | 19:02 |
| majoridiot | tar xvf <filename> | 19:03 |
| mishehu | does anybody know what the preferred mode for the ati remote wonder would be? should I use the kernel /dev/input drivers or should I use lirc_atiusb? | 19:05 |
| majoridiot | mishehu, have you looked at this thread? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=603120 | 19:08 |
| staind9383 | sooo when i try to run the file it tells me no such file or directory... even though i am in the right directory, and the file has the right permissions.... I fee like i'm going nuts | 19:09 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | the app bar is still there | 19:12 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, no such file doing what? | 19:12 |
| staind9383 | sean@gearbox:~$ ./mythprime -v | 19:12 |
| staind9383 | -bash: ./mythprime: No such file or directory | 19:12 |
| mishehu | majoridiot: I have not, but am now. though I don't know if I should be trusting anything a majoridiot says ;-) | 19:12 |
| majoridiot | mishehu, wise to be cautious ;) | 19:13 |
| staind9383 | majoridiot: did you ever get my email? | 19:13 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, ls -l ./mythprime from the directory it is in. what is the result? | 19:13 |
| staind9383 | -rwxr-xr-x 1 sean sean 14788 2008-03-29 13:24 ./mythprime | 19:14 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, yes i did, thank you. | 19:14 |
| staind9383 | -la, but same difference | 19:14 |
| majoridiot | hm. and ./mythprime -h does what? | 19:14 |
| mishehu | alright, off to see if forcing the tvformat for this POS fglrx driver will get me some *colors* on my tv display. | 19:15 |
| staind9383 | mishehu: colors are overrated... | 19:15 |
| * mishehu pees on ATI's crappy ass linux support. Also, prays to the gawds of computing to allow the winds to favor radeonhd... | 19:15 | |
| mishehu | staind9383: sure, if you're a dog or some other colorblind creature ;-) | 19:15 |
| staind9383 | mishehu: if you like, we can switch, i get nintendo style green / ren plaid screens now | 19:16 |
| mishehu | it'd be funny if parrots were colorblind. | 19:16 |
| mishehu | staind9383: oh, you mean the "blow out the cartridge screens" ? | 19:16 |
| Aquahallic | afternoon folks | 19:16 |
| staind9383 | yea | 19:16 |
| staind9383 | majoridiot: still no such file or directory | 19:16 |
| mishehu | staind9383: damn we're old man. today's kids have no knowledge of how hard we had it with the old NES | 19:17 |
| Aquahallic | when ripping a dvd can you go straight to an AVI file???? | 19:17 |
| mishehu | my old NES played games better when I *didn't* push them down, only slid them in. | 19:17 |
| staind9383 | mishehu: never have to blow on a DVD do they | 19:17 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, ok... from a terminal, run thunar | 19:17 |
| mishehu | staind9383: or smack a DVD around at all either | 19:17 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | i have to blow on my nintendoDS sholder buttons to get them to work sometimes, does that count? | 19:17 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, then, navigate to the directory with the new mythprime and double-click to run it. see what the output in the terminal is. | 19:18 |
| mishehu | MythbuntuGuest97: not quite, youngin! | 19:18 |
| mishehu | back in my day we didn't even have DS | 19:18 |
| mishehu | and we were HAPPY | 19:18 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | im 28, just underprivelaged as a child | 19:18 |
| mishehu | heh | 19:18 |
| staind9383 | majoridiot: failed to execute mythprime | 19:18 |
| mishehu | MythbuntuGuest97: 2 more years to the grave for you! | 19:18 |
| staind9383 | same error, no sich file or dir | 19:18 |
| staind9383 | such | 19:18 |
| mishehu | I'm hoping that NTSC-M is for north america, otherwise this is going to be a fun day of "guess the NTSC format"! | 19:19 |
| majoridiot | sec. | 19:19 |
| staind9383 | majoridiot: is there something just completely f'd with my system? | 19:19 |
| majoridiot | hm. just downloaded and unpacked it again (tested it before posting) and everything works fine here. | 19:20 |
| MythbuntuGuest97 | well i have the app bar set to autohide , i guess ill just have to be happy with that | 19:20 |
| majoridiot | mishehu, NTSC-M is north americs | 19:21 |
| majoridiot | america | 19:21 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, send me your email address and i will send you the source and instructions on how to compile. | 19:22 |
| mishehu | fsck, still no color | 19:28 |
| ajh | mishehu, don't worry too much, even if you got colour with NTSC it wouldn't be the right ones. | 19:33 |
| * majoridiot diplomatically recommends nvidia cards | 19:34 | |
| staind9383 | anyone know the proper use ofthe scp command? | 19:35 |
| mpontillo | staind9383: what are you trying to do? | 19:35 |
| majoridiot | stain man scp | 19:35 |
| staind9383 | copy a file from one server to another | 19:35 |
| mishehu | majoridiot: doesn't help if it's an onboard chipset, and the machine is in a chassis that requires half-height cards. | 19:36 |
| ajh | use sftp if you're unabld to figure out cp. :) | 19:36 |
| mpontillo | use it just like cp, but add user@host before each filename | 19:36 |
| mpontillo | sorry, user@host:<filename> | 19:36 |
| staind9383 | isee | 19:36 |
| mpontillo | *each remote filename | 19:36 |
| mishehu | hmm looks like mythbuntu has a rather old fglrx on it | 19:37 |
| majoridiot | but essentially: scp <source file> user@ip.address.of.target:/target/directory or scp user@ip.address.of.target:/target/directory /file /local/path/to/copy/to | 19:37 |
| staind9383 | gotcha | 19:38 |
| mpontillo | Something up with the wiki? http://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV fails to load for me. Strangely, http://help.ubuntu.com/ works fine... | 19:39 |
| mpontillo | scratch that - works in Linux/Firefox for me, but not Windows/Firefox... wonder if it's just me? | 19:41 |
| Aquahallic | folks... during a rip of a dvd to a local file... my rip just dies.. where can I find the log for archiving??? I've looked in the frontend log and see nothing there..... | 19:44 |
| staind9383 | majoridiot: i tried dling that file and upzipping in a VM version of 8.04 i have on my xp box and i get al error related to the app | 19:44 |
| staind9383 | so it seems like something is completely wrong with this htpc | 19:44 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, it looks that way. :( | 19:44 |
| majoridiot | Aquahallic, look in the backend log? | 19:45 |
| staind9383 | i dont know what the hell happened,... but if mythtv is gonna be a serious option for me i think that i need to learn a little more about how to manage a linux install / administer the system.. i cant just have it stop workign all of a suddfen on me | 19:45 |
| majoridiot | staind9383, it's really odd that it just stopped working all of the sudden and for no reason. | 19:46 |
| mpontillo | Aquahallic: for me it's in the frontend log; if I do a 'grep libdvd /var/log/mythtv/*' I get some information | 19:46 |
| Aquahallic | hmmm... k.. lemme look...:) | 19:46 |
| Aquahallic | ty | 19:47 |
| staind9383 | i scheduled some recordings via mythweb, but i didnt change any settings there | 19:47 |
| staind9383 | whens 8.04 come out | 19:47 |
| * majoridiot just downloaded and unpacked the binary on a windoze box, scp'd it to a mythbox and all is well in the garden on this end. | 19:48 | |
| * staind9383 is going to reinstall and update to current right away before setting evcerything up | 19:49 | |
| === staind9383 is now known as c3rb3rus5 | ||
| c3rb3rus5 | to better match what i am in the forum | 19:50 |
| Aquahallic | well.. I see the log there.. but I can't tell what's going on... | 19:51 |
| c3rb3rus5 | so should i install the 7.10 mythbuntu then update to .21, or install the latest beta / alpha of 8.04 | 19:52 |
| * majoridiot recommends a fresh 8.04 beta, if you are reinstalling | 19:52 | |
| mpontillo | Aquahallic: what do you mean by "just dies"? does it start and then die, or does it never start? I think I had to set a pathname to rip to somewhere before it would work... can't recall exactly though | 19:52 |
| majoridiot | that way you are sure there should be no package probs... i.e. mythvideo/mythdvd etc. | 19:53 |
| Aquahallic | it starts... goes for a while.. then just exits out | 19:53 |
| Aquahallic | I've pathed it out to my backend share for where to rip it | 19:53 |
| Aquahallic | I can see it starting to put the file in the folder I've specified | 19:54 |
| mpontillo | ah. well, did you try a different DVD? not sure how you would tell if it's getting I/O errors reading from the drive... | 19:54 |
| Aquahallic | yeah.. that's what I'm wondering.. I'm trying another one now | 19:55 |
| Aquahallic | that one had some scratches on it | 19:55 |
| mpontillo | any clues in dmesg or /var/log/syslog? | 19:56 |
| grytpype | q for the group... I have a new mythbuntu box, everything works except when I try to view video on either my PVR or Firewire cards, it fails after about 2 seconds. | 19:57 |
| grytpype | The PVR shows DMA TIMEOUT errors, the Firewire just fails. | 19:57 |
| grytpype | I have a VIA chipset which was probably a mistake. | 19:57 |
| c3rb3rus5 | grytpype: does firewire prime right? | 19:57 |
| grytpype | Is there a way to turn off DMA for those cards? Or should I just get a new mobo with an NVIDIA chipset? | 19:58 |
| grytpype | yes, it primes. | 19:58 |
| grytpype | With the firewire, plugreport and firewire_tester are 100% successful, and test-mpeg2 works. | 19:58 |
| grytpype | but when I try to stream video from either the firewire or PVR card, it fails after 2 sec. | 19:59 |
| majoridiot | 'lo grytpype :) | 19:59 |
| grytpype | hey majoridiot | 20:00 |
| grytpype | i will pm you my email address... am going out for the evening so the test might be on sunday for me | 20:00 |
| c3rb3rus5 | majoridiot: it seems like one vid file is screwing me up... after it shows nothing works again... on a fresh restart things work | 20:00 |
| c3rb3rus5 | except that mythprime file... that is still not found | 20:01 |
| majoridiot | c3rb3rus5, maybe try uninstalling and reinstalling the proprietary vid driver? | 20:01 |
| majoridiot | grytpype, thank you. | 20:01 |
| Aquahallic | mpontillo: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 860817 | 20:03 |
| Aquahallic | what's the sr0 device?? | 20:03 |
| Aquahallic | getting this error while ripping a dvd... Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 860817 | 20:04 |
| mpontillo | Aquahallic: Wasn't sure myself: http://aplawrence.com/Bofcusm/1827.html -- "SCSI CD-ROM 0" | 20:04 |
| mpontillo | Sounds like you've narrowed it down between the DVD (too scratched?) and the drive (can't read DVDs in general) | 20:04 |
| Aquahallic | yeah.. that dvd was TORCHED.. Kids movie.. I'm trying to rip 'em to an AVI so they can just select them from the videos on myth.. so they CAN'T scratch them...LOL | 20:05 |
| mpontillo | bummer. yeah, my son is 4 weeks old and I've already started ripping kids movies - I've seen how kids handle DVDs!! | 20:07 |
| majoridiot | sr0 is generally a sata cd/dvd | 20:08 |
| Aquahallic | wow... I just did a hdparm -t on my cdrom drive.... Timing buffered disk reads: 10 MB in 3.24 seconds = 3.08 MB/sec | 20:24 |
| Aquahallic | that's pretty slow isn't it???? | 20:24 |
| mishehu | ok, I think I just revealed that my problem with the video out on my system is *not* due to the crappy ass fglrx drivers... | 20:27 |
| EvilGuru | Aquahallic: 1x is 150kb/s | 20:27 |
| mishehu | even when I boot up and go into the bios, it's black and white. | 20:27 |
| EvilGuru | So around 20x speed, seems reasonable | 20:27 |
| mpontillo | my DVD drive works fine and got: Timing buffered disk reads: 6 MB in 3.08 seconds = 1.95 MB/sec | 20:27 |
| EvilGuru | It depends where it starts reading from, the outer sectors will be a lot faster | 20:28 |
| Aquahallic | yeah | 20:28 |
| EvilGuru | 1.95mb is quite slow for a DVD | 20:28 |
| Aquahallic | this thing keeps bombing ripping dvds with IO errors | 20:28 |
| mpontillo | tried it again, (presumably after the drive already spun up, it's in the other room) and it's faster: Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.40 seconds = 2.35 MB/sec | 20:29 |
| EvilGuru | My okay-ish drive with cheap media can burn at 8x (10 MB/s) | 20:29 |
| EvilGuru | Is the quality of S-Video (for TV out) much better than that of composite? | 21:20 |
| mpontillo | EvilGuru: yes, I have noticed a *huge* difference between the two.. YMMV | 21:24 |
| EvilGuru | As currently I have my PAL-I TV at 1024x768 and while it is not bad, it is not crisp | 21:25 |
| EvilGuru | so I was considering getting an S-Video => SCART and connecting it that wat | 21:25 |
| c3rb3rus5 | sooo if i reinstall mythbuntu.. is there a way to save the recordings that I have now? | 22:10 |
| mishehu | c3rb3rus5: I'm sure there are, but it all depends on how your mythtv is set up on your network. | 22:15 |
| c3rb3rus5 | one box, both backend and front | 22:15 |
| mishehu | and database? | 22:16 |
| c3rb3rus5 | same box | 22:17 |
| c3rb3rus5 | yea | 22:17 |
| mishehu | that's a bit trickier then. | 22:17 |
| mishehu | you'd need to do the following: | 22:17 |
| mishehu | 1. make a dump of mythconverg database with mysqldump | 22:18 |
| mishehu | 2. Copy that dump and all recording files to a removable drive. | 22:18 |
| mishehu | 3. Reinstall mythbuntu, get it working again | 22:18 |
| mishehu | 3. Restore the files to the recordings directory | 22:18 |
| mishehu | oops that's 4 | 22:18 |
| c3rb3rus5 | haha | 22:18 |
| c3rb3rus5 | well | 22:18 |
| mishehu | 5. Restore the database from the dump | 22:18 |
| c3rb3rus5 | what if i have /var/lib as its own partition | 22:19 |
| c3rb3rus5 | wil that work? just backup the db to there? | 22:19 |
| mishehu | c3rb3rus5: sure. you just have to make sure you don't do any oopsies like repartition or have it reformat that partition | 22:19 |
| mishehu | heh | 22:19 |
| c3rb3rus5 | i think that you might not be able to set /var/lib as a mount point without reformatting... | 22:19 |
| c3rb3rus5 | think tiat i might have tried somehting similar last time | 22:20 |
| mishehu | then you'll want to do steps 2 and 3 | 22:20 |
| mishehu | dammit mythbuntu already has a group 103 in use. | 22:22 |
| mishehu | klog. | 22:22 |
| mishehu | screws up my samba server access... | 22:22 |
| exec87 | hi, i'm using mythbuntu, and i dont get the VNC working... i'm activating it in the mythbuntu control, setting the pw... pushing apply | 22:51 |
| exec87 | and nothing happens... when i start the config the next time its disabled again | 22:51 |
| EvilGuru | If PAL has a resolution of 768x578 how can the nvidia driver output 1024x768 to my PAL tv | 22:52 |
| ajh | Hey, anyone know offhand where the font size for the setup menu text is stored? | 23:23 |
| exec87 | can anyone give me his first line from ist etc/apt/source.list ? | 23:24 |
| exec87 | the one with the cdrom? | 23:24 |
| sebrock | I'm having trouble installing a LCDproc from cvs... when I try ./autogen I get a message about AC_PROG_LIBTOOL and it just exits | 23:26 |
| sebrock | so I cant create a makefile | 23:26 |
| ahave | hello room, can anyone tell me if this optical drive is supported in linux? GGC-H20L | 23:48 |
| ahave | it is the LG bluray/HD dvd drive | 23:48 |
| exec87 | ahrg :( | 23:49 |
| exec87 | damn VNC | 23:49 |
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