[mythtv-users] Suggestions for a stable backend

[HP-mini]

On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 08:54 -0800, EJS wrote:
> On 1/03/14 03:42, warp me wrote: 
> > BTW: may You little more elaborate about this "special version of
> the 
> > motherboard bios". How You find it, what is solves, who prepare it,
> etc… 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions guys! 
> 
> 
> Yes.  I think the bios/second tuner is the likely culprit. It was a
> while ago when I first installed it so I don't remember exactly what
> happened, but I think that the system was pretty stable with just one
> tuner. When I tried to install the second one, the os would not
> recognize it. Eventually I found this posting on a gigabyte message
> board
> http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,6608.msg52623.html#msg52623 about a custom bios that they had produced for a customer that added compatibility for PCI-E 2.1 cards. (I don't remember why I this would have only affected the second card.) In any case, the bios wasn't released publicly but someone uploaded to the forum; so I gave it a try and it worked. (Well, except for the stability problems.)
> 
> 
> I'll try upgrading the os/myth versions to cover my bases, but Im not
> optimistic.  If that doesn't help, I'll pull the card and see if
> things stabilize.  If it does, which is more likely, I think it will
> be a choice of either replacing the motherboard or the tuner cards. It
> sounds like the rest of the system (e.g. cpu/ram) has enough beef for
> what I am trying to do.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions on moving to 13.04 vs 14.04? I like being on an LTS
> release, but 14.04 is pretty new.  I'd hate to introduce a set of new
> problems.

You should be using 12.04-LTS then...

AIUI
14.04 is not released until April..& the LTS versions have typically
followed about 1-2 months later..
There will be an direct upgrade paths for:
- 12.04(.03)LTS
- 13.10