MythTV

I’ve gotten into the habit of skipping every other Fedora release since that lets me skip doing upgrades every year.Â I feelÂ a little more productive that way.Â Most especially since I have lots of boxes at home doing special things (development, httpd staging, MythTV servers and frontends, etc).Â Well, […]

Fedora 9 upgrade but a GNOME downgrade

Sun August 10, 2008 in Fedora / Linux tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / Linux / MythTV / nvidia / Writing

I made notes on my upgrade from 0.20 to 0.21. The software upgrade is clean but the runtime is somewhat broken on two of my three frontends. These are my (raw) notes. Upgrading to MythTV 0.21 All upgrading was done via the ATrpms repository which provided the previous release (0.20) […]

MythTV 0.21: problems with playback profiles

Wed March 12, 2008 in Linux / MythTV tagged acer / atrpms / epia / Fedora / intel / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum

A recent article about GNOME 2.22 included this brief mention: Totem 2.22 features plugins for YouTube and MythTV. The YouTube plug-in allows you to search and browse YouTube.com video files all within Totem. The MythTV plugin for GNOME allows you to view recordings from a MythTV server as well as […]

MythTV in GNOME and Maemo

Tue January 29, 2008 in Linux / MythTV tagged gnome / MythTV / Video

I’m finally getting back to using my Epia M10000 board as a MythTV frontend. The goal here is to configure it to run with a CF card for booting and a wireless card to communicate with the backend, and use the TV-output connected to our TV in the living room. […]

Bringing up MiniMyth on an EPIA M10000 using wireless

Sun October 21, 2007 in EPIA-M / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / Software Development / Via Motherboards tagged epia / Fedora / graphics / Linux / MythTV / Video / wifi (updated 6401 days ago)

Well, I’m getting further along. I now understand how to use the intel driver better, well enough to setup dual head dynamically using xrandr. But there is a serious limitation that makes me think either the Intel guys don’t understand X11 or there is a shift in Xorg away from […]

i915GM/Fedora 7: Dual head success with intel driver, but ...

Tue October 09, 2007 in Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / X11 tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / intel / MythTV / Video / X11 / xrandr (updated 6413 days ago)

I posted a question about getting my i915GM graphics working on my laptop with Fedora 7. Kevin Fenzi of tummy.com, who works on the Fedora project, suggested trying a stock xorg.conf config then plugin the VGA output and do xrandr –auto. The stock xorg.conf uses the intel driver, which he […]

i915GM and Fedora 7: intel bad, i810 good

Mon October 08, 2007 in Hardware / Linux / X11 tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / intel / MythTV / Video / X11 / xrandr

I posted some queries about getting dual head working with my laptop, which uses the Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller, aka i915GM. Under FC5 the i810 X.org driver supported dual head AND TV-out. But I’m having a problem getting dual head working under F7 with either the i810 […]

i915 dual head configuration (FC5 – F7 doesn’t work yet)

Wed October 03, 2007 in Linux / X11 tagged graphics / intel / Linux / MythTV / ubuntu / X11 (updated 6419 days ago)

It’s that time again. Time to upgrade all the servers in the house (and at work, probably early next month) to the latest Fedora release. I started with my MythTV server since it only serves two purposes: run as the MythTV backend and run BOINC. I jumped into this a […]

Upgrading to Fedora 7 and MythTV 0.20.2 (Schedules Direct)

Sat September 29, 2007 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / MythTV / X11 tagged atrpms / Fedora / gnome / graphics / intel / ivtv / Linux / livna / mysql / MythTV / rpm / Video / xrandr / yum (updated 6419 days ago)

My wife and I are planning this year's landscaping projects for our new home (we bought it last August). I thought a clever way to do that would be to run some landscaping software I bought a few years back. It's a Windows 98 application. I have a copy of […]

Getting a windows app running under Fedora Core 5

Sun March 18, 2007 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / Linux / MythTV / Video (updated 6617 days ago)

I've finally gotten back to working on my MythBox project. This is a project to build an embedded distribution for MythTV that will run on a high-end appliance for the backend. In other words, I want to build a distribution that can run off a IDE CF card so power […]

Back to Mythbox, finally

Sun September 24, 2006 in MythTV tagged Linux / MythTV

This blog entry tells me one thing: software developers are still stupid. Have we not learned anything from bloated Windows environments? Why don't we just tie the X environment into the kernel and then embed all our X applications inside that! WOW! Let's see if we can keep the CPU […]

OpenOffice to embed Thunderbird and Sunbird? Bleck.

Wed September 20, 2006 in Linux / Open Source tagged Linux / lwn / MythTV (updated 6797 days ago)

Linux Devices posted a story about a new Linux-based DVR from a company called Neuros that is going into beta specifically for Linux-hackers. This looks pretty cool. It would be fun to play with if I had a spare $230. But that price point is too high for me when […]

Linux-based DVR goes beta to Linux hackers

Wed September 20, 2006 in Linux / MythTV tagged Linux / MythTV

Michael J. Hammel

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