[mythtv-users] MythTV Light Builds

[James Abernathy]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 9:07 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 3/9/22 21:00, James Abernathy wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 8:38 PM Ken Mandelberg <km at mathcs.emory.edu> wrote:
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>> Yes, I was starting from the GUI. I now switched to a CLI boot, and tried
>> to follow the wiki running
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>>         QT_QPA_PLATFORM=eglfs mythfrontend
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>> I get "Cannot Find DRM Device"
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>> Any suggestions?
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>> Peter Bennett wrote on 3/8/22 11:10:
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>> On 3/8/22 10:55, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
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>> Peter, thanks!
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>> I have an old 3B (not 3B+) that was doing nothing, so I thought I would
>> try it.
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>> I loaded Buster and then the Mythtv light. No tweaks no MPG license. The
>> GUI ran painfully slowly each screen change rendered incrementally. The
>> setup video even in standard was very choppy.
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>> Is there anything I can do to make this usable, or is a 3B just totally
>> inadequate.
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>> It should not be that bad. Did you follow the guide in the wiki?
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>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Setup_on_Raspbian
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>> and improving performance
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>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#System_Performance
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>> This version is run from command line so you should set up the system to
>> start in command line mode.
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>> Peter
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> This was discussed on the mythtv forum (link below). But here is a quick
> summary.
> use this command:
>  QT_QPA_EGLFS_ALWAYS_SET_MODE="1" QT_QPA_PLATFORM=eglfs
> QT_QPA_EGLFS_KMS_CONFIG=./pi_mythfrontend.json mythfrontend --noupnp
> --logpath /tmp
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> and create ./pi_mythfrontend.json:
> { "device": "/dev/dri/by-path/platform-gpu-card", "outputs": [ { "name":
> "HDMI1", "mode": "1920x1080 at 60" } ] }
> https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=4694
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> Jim A
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> Jim
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> I am no longer using the raspberry pi for watching, and the wiki seems to
> be out of date. Would you like to update the wiki to the latest
> information? Let me know if you want to do that and I can set you up with a
> user id.
>
> Peter
>

Writing up something is the easy part, I've done that on the MythTV forum
and on my blog (which needs updating also). However, the last time I tried
to update a Wiki was impossible because it wasn't WYSIWYG and you had to
know a lot of arcane markup codes.  Too much like using word
processors back in the DOS days, and I mean IBM System 360 DOS and not IBM
PC DOS.. Is there a way to take the wiki page into a real editor and fix it
and then put it back into the wiki?

Jim A
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