<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Scott Traurig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:straurig@comcast.net">straurig@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Scott Traurig wrote:<br>
> Environment: ubuntu 7.10, mythtv 0.22 build 16578 (13 Mar 08)<br>
><br>
> My "production machine", i.e. the machine that my wife will kick my<br>
> ass if it doesn't remain completely stable, has recently ended 154<br>
> days of fabulously stable uptime and finally required a reboot.<br>
><br>
> After the mandatory ass-kicking :-) I took advantage of the situation<br>
> to, at no small risk, to apply the 100+ pending updates to ubuntu<br>
> 7.10. As luck would have it everything appears to have turned out<br>
> well.<br>
><br>
> Now the million dollar question is: should I go ahead and let the<br>
> Update Manager update the machine to ubuntu 8.04? I've heard that<br>
> going to 8.04 (Hardy) requires 0.22. The build of 0.22 I'm running<br>
> pre-dates the QT4 dependency. It would seem I'm in a good position to<br>
> go forward.<br>
><br>
> That said of course I am flirting with breaking the "If it ain't<br>
> broke..." rule. Nevertheless does anyone have any experience or<br>
> guidance with this transition? Your tales of success or failure would<br>
> be most appreciated.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Scott<br>
<br>
I pushed the jolly, candy-like upgrade button last night. I very carefully<br>
did NOT let it replace any configuration files every time it offered to do<br>
so. I DID let it remove obsolete packages. Two hours later (I guess my<br>
download speed is not very good) I had a completely running, apparently<br>
stable system. Samba, Apache, Mythweb and VNC are all running OK, too. And<br>
Firefox is FAR more stable :-).<br>
<br>
One thing I did notice is it killed off nvidia-settings, which I run as a<br>
startup session in order to adjust the brightness and contrast more to my<br>
liking (defaults make playback in Myth way to dark). I had to reinstall it<br>
but it picked up the old settings immediately. It also disabled all my<br>
non-standard software repositories but that's an easy fix. There may be a<br>
few other things but I'd say I'm at 99% production readiness.<br>
<br>
For those of you thinking of taking the plunge all I can say is I am one<br>
more successful data point. For those of you who suggested a complete<br>
rebuild/going to mythbuntu, etc. that was exactly what I was trying to<br>
avoid. That was the emergency backup solution!<br>
<br>
With 8.10 imminent I feel a lot better :-)<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Scott<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>Hi Scott,<br><br>What nvidia settings do you apply at startup and how do you apply them?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Greg<br></div>