[mythtv-users] R5A16->R5A22 upgrade: my expierience and some questions

[Warpme]

Hi *

Just short update about MythTV upgrade from R5A16 to R5A22
(EPIA10K, PVR250,1x200GB HHD)

General:
-upgrade went without any problem
-after upgrade in LiveTV/recordings Playback sound start to be choppy 
(regular ~0.5sec pauses every ~1 sec).
Going to "settings/playback/enable extra audio buffering" solved problem :-)
-so far so good (r5a22 running only 24h - no any problems discovered)


Changes:
-No more fronted hangs when XvMC enabled and Xv used.
-When XvMC enabled - Xv is still BW, but fading effect is now working :-)
-CPU load dropped from 35-40% to 15-20% ;-)

Looks like MythTV going better and better. r5a16 was ver good release. 
r5a22 is even better.

Cecil, this software is  one of most useful and well thought I ever 
seen. Brilliant.
BIG THANX !


BTW:
Maybe some mercyfull soul help me with following issues:

1. I added second HDD to my central server. HDD is added with LVM.
Old HDA4 from first HDD is converted to LVM and added to  LVM vol.
When I manually mount LVM vol to "/myth" (mount /dev/MythVG/myth /myth) 
all is OK. But after reboot LVM vol in not mounted.
Of course in /etc/fstab I add "/dev/MythVG/myth  /myth  auto  
defaults,auto  0  2".

My suspicion was that LVM isn't  starting at boot time. So I  enter 
"update-rc.d lvm defaults", but it didn't help.

I go to MythWiKi and found that I need enter  "update-rc.d lvm start 26 
S . stop 82 1 ."

Ok, now LVM vol is mounted automagically after boot, but during boot I 
receive tons of messages
like "open failed: no such device or address" for almost all devices 
located in "/dev".

I suspect that it is result of  not optimal start LVM via "update-rc.d 
lvm start 26 S . stop 82 1 .

How can I improve this situation ?

2. My EPIA has only one Eth port. I want to run my MythServer also as 
Internet gateway/firewall.
I plan to use USB-Eth adapter for introducing second Eth intfs (Internet 
side).
I bought already *Billionton* ThumbLAN USBKR-100B (RTL1850 based). 
Device is recognized by system. Here are entries from syslog

Oct 22 11:19:55 mythtv lircd-0.7.2pvr150[3960]: accepted new client on 
/dev/lircd                                        
Oct 22 11:21:04 mythtv kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using 
uhci_hcd and address 2                           
Oct 22 11:21:06 mythtv kernel: drivers/usb/net/rtl8150.c: rtl8150 based 
usb-ethernet driver v0.6.2 (2004/08/27)          
Oct 22 11:21:06 mythtv kernel: drivers/usb/net/rtl8150.c: eth%%d: 
rtl8150 is detected                                    
Oct 22 11:21:06 mythtv kernel: usbcore: registered new driver 
rtl8150                                                    
Oct 22 11:21:06 mythtv usb.agent[6151]:      rtl8150: loaded successfully

But when I type ifconfig, only lo and eth0 are present. No USB0.
How can configure system to create & use this adapter as second Eth intf ?

Milion than in advance !