<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Dale E. Martin <<a href="mailto:dale@the-martins.org">dale@the-martins.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:03:23PM -0400, Josh White wrote:<br>
> Thanks for the help, but it still doesn't seem to work. The reason I'm<br>
> running debian on this machine is because it's a PPC eMac. I tried using OS<br>
> X but .21 just wouldn't run adequately. I tried other flavors of Linux, but<br>
> this was the only thing I could find that worked well enough to consider,<br>
> including Ubuntu and yellow dog. Now that I have a stable linux platform, I<br>
> can't get the myth packages. Lucky me. I'm guessing that the myth packages<br>
> are messed up and it only affects PPC machines. Oh well, I guess I just<br>
> won't have myth for a while longer, or until I upgrade my hardware.<br>
<br>
</div></div>In general people try to help out on this list, but you have to provide<br>
specific information for them to even attempt it. It's not clear what<br>
you're trying to do or how it's breaking. Are you doing "apt-get install<br>
mythtv" and you get errors from that, or is in installing and then it<br>
doesn't work after installation? If its the latter, what isn't working?<br>
The backend doesn't start, the frontend doesn't show a picture? Without<br>
more info it's hard to suggest something to try.<br>
<br>
Take care,<br>
<font color="#888888"> Dale<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">--<br>
Dale E. Martin - <a href="mailto:dale@the-martins.org">dale@the-martins.org</a><br>
<a href="http://the-martins.org/%7Edmartin" target="_blank">http://the-martins.org/~dmartin</a><br>
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<br>Fast-forward to 3:00. As I was writing this, I went back to my frontend system to see what specific information I could gather to better describe my problem, and I was surprised to see that the packages are now up to version 8. So I tried installing them, and it all worked. I just connected it to my backend server, and it seems to work. I had been running on OS X, but the system didn't seem able to perform well enough to display SD after the update to .21. Now it seems to work well on Debian. <br>
<br>Thank you to whomever updated the Debian Multimedia repository with the new packages and made this possible for me. My WAF will finally have a chance to rise to the level it was before I started my troubled upgrade from .20.2 to .21. <br>
<br>- Josh<br></div></div><br>