[mythtv-users] about to take the plunge

[Bill Omer]

Erik Pettersen wrote:
>Then again, for stability linux may be "the cure" you're looking for ;)
>  

Well that is what I'm hoping for.  I had a feeling I might be setting my 
self up for a fight, and I believe that I am right.

I installed KnoppMyth last night and it was not without troubles (but 
what ever is?).  The install its self went ok, it was fast and not allot 
to it.  But when I tried to reboot after the install finished, it would 
get past POST and would never boot.  I was faced with a flashing cursor 
in the top left corner of the screen and it would never move.  

So I hit the forums.  After some reading I found several people who had 
the same problem.  I tried several possible solutions without much 
luck.  Then I found a posting that said doing an 'Auto Upgrade' work for 
them.  That finally got the box to boot up!

I was able to get my pvr-250 working and could watch tv and tune 
channels after I found a script named directv.pl.   I was not, however 
able to get my Firefly remote to work correctly.  I can use irw and it 
does show the commands when I push buttons, so that is good.  I guess I 
just need to map some commands in my .lirc file?

Is there a trick to getting DVD playback working?  I fiddled with it a 
little this morning and when I go to Optical Drives and select DVD it 
doesn't do anything.  When I tried to do it manually with mplayer or 
xine, I get some errors about not being able to read /dev/dvd.  I ran a 
script to set cd permissions and that didn't help....  Any suggestions?


This is starting to shape up to be a pretty big project.  I've already 
invested loooots of time setting up my pvr originally, and I dont know 
if I will be able to afford putting a huge number of hours in to this or 
not.  I'm still aiming for the stability to outweigh the issues I'm 
having during the initial setup process.   I have a huge WAF and right 
now.... well my cell phone is ringing allot.   I am hoping that once I 
get the remote working that it will let her feel more comfortable with it. 



Regards
Bill Omer