[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 8.10

[James Crow]

I was feeling adventurous this morning and decided to upgrade my
Mythbuntu 8.04.1 system to 8.10. On 8.04 I had to add a patch to lirc
for my remote (MCE made by Pinnacle). I also had to compile a newer
version of the dvb drivers to support a Pinnacle 800i ATSC/QAM card. I
had a USB Pinnacle HDTV Pro stick that needed updated drivers to work
with 8.04 as well.

Because I did not want to use the DKMS patched lirc and 4vl-dvb drivers
from my 8.04 system I removed them prior to starting the upgrade.
# dkms uninstall -m lirc -v 0.8.3~pre1
# dkms uninstall -m v4l-dvb -v 0.20080631

My main desktop was already running 8.10 and had most of the needed
packages. I copied the debs over to the Myth box and started the
upgrade. It needed to grab an additional 170 packages (out of 900 some)
and took about 12 minutes.

The update asked about overwriting a couple of files. One of them was
my /etc/mysql/my.cnf. I have the database bound to my ip rather than
localhost to support my remote frontends. The upgrade wanted to
overwrite my php.ini and I let it. I had increased the amount of memory
used by php for something, but forgot why.

Another ten minutes or so and the system was ready for a restart. After
restart I noticed an error in dmesg about the firmware for my Pinnacle
800i card. I copied it into place and restarted. The kernel loaded the
firmware this time without a hitch.

I have started recordings on all available recorders and will check them
out when I get home for lunch. Thumbnails look good in Mythweb so I
think they will be ok.

So far so good.

Cheers,
James