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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/15/2015 06:13 PM, Daryl McDonald
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<p dir="ltr"> Greetings Mythizens, Last month I tried to set my
son, a software engineer for Amazon.com, up with MythTv. It
didn't go so well. I tried first with software center and it
went into that grey "who knows what is going on state" so we
aborted and tried "apt-get" which seemed to work... we started
to configure the back end and ran into a problem with
recognizing the tuner, so I suggested a reboot, after which we
could not get into anything. So here we are, a total novice, me,
trying to tell a programmer, my son, how to proceed. It became
more like work, that he had just spent the last eight hours
getting paid for, and I'm sure he would have rather spent time
with his beautiful wife.<br>
We aborted and nothing has been done since, my thought is to
wipe all previous efforts and start again, and I think he may
have done that between the first two attempts (maybe not as
through as necessary). Is there anyone out there willing to
explain to my son in full programmer language a successful way
to set himself up from this point? TIA Daryl</p>
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Hi Daryl<br>
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I am working on a new "User's Manual" which will eventually have a
set of quick-start guides for various situations, to get people
going more easily. <br>
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I can have a go at helping you and your son and in the process get
insight into the problems he is facing as a user of MythTV. This way
I can make the eventual user manual better.<br>
<br>
To see the work in progress user manual, navigate to here <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User:Pgbennett">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User:Pgbennett</a><br>
Click on the links in the "New Table of Contents". Be aware that
some of the pages still have the Old Table of Contents embedded, so
come back to the original page rather than navigate to links there.
When the work is complete the old table of contents will be removed
and the new one embedded.<br>
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You can email me or the list with specific questions and I will try
to walk you through. For a start it would be helpful to know what
operating system distribution you are using (Ubuntu, Mythbuntu,
Debian, etc.) and version, also what type of tuner you have.<br>
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Peter<br>
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