[mythtv-users] F7 to F8 or F7 to F9

[Another Sillyname]

F9 does have issues with NVIDIA but it's because the xorg server
currently shipping with F9 is a beta 1.5 version (see the extensive
comments on nvnews and fedoraforum.org ).  I've got F9 working by
downscaling xorg to the F8 version and using the nvidia driver.

One thing I will warn you about is that F9 uses Pulseaudio as standard
and AC3 or SPDIF docs for PulseAudio seem none existent.

On balance I'd recommend staying where you are for 3-4 weeks till the
F9 niggles are sorted out.

One good thing is the 2.6.25 kernel supports a lot more v4l/dvb
devices 'out of the box'.

J

2008/5/26 Douglas Wagner <douglasw0 at gmail.com>:
>
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Javier Perez <pepebuho at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>> I heard so much negative stuff about F8 and it's audio setup that i
>> decided to stay at F7 level.  ( I learned the hard way to not trouble
>> trouble until trouble troubles me
>> regarding my MythTv setup. ). With F7 reaching EOL, I wonder if it is ok
>> to go into the newly released F9 or should I take my chances with F8?
>>
>> Is mythtv working fine under F9?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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>
> The end result is: NO it's not.
>
> I JUST did this.  Tried to take a MythTV FC6 Box to F9 and it was a failure
> (well, partial failure at least).
>
> First the upgrade path from FC6 -> F9 was junk, the "upgrade" simply didn't
> work, graphics didn't work well, etc.
>
> So I then reformatted and went through the process.  All went well till I
> came to the NVidia drivers.  Seems, F9 is too new at this point, NVidia
> simply would not load, not 192 nor the next version (beta, downloaded from
> NVidia themselves).  The 192 build has known issues and has a patch, but the
> patch didn't bring nvidia up, nor did the beta drivers that supposedly fix
> the issue (and cause other issues).
>
> This was an attempt as of last week Tuesday?  Monday?  Something like that
> so it's about a week old info.
>
> I have an NVidia 6200 in the box, and tried both Axel's driver as well as a
> download from Nvida (both patched 192 + beta).
>
> Now, I will admit something: I have 2 weeks to get basically my entire house
> network re-installed and re-setup/upgraded and I really didn't have the time
> nor the inclination to go screwing around with the Nvidia drivers.  I can
> tell you that as of a week ago it didn't work "out of the box".  That may be
> different now.
>
> I AM NOT trying to get into distro wars at this point but for me, I switched
> over to MythBuntu, had the system up within about 6 hours.  It's not perfect
> by any means (see my post about MythBuntu + SB Live Sound) but it works and
> works well at this point, and given that it's on a 3 year support and
> installs by CD (it only includes like 20 programs, literally, and most of
> those are configuration applications) within about 15 minutes it was
> something I couldn't pass up...
>
> YMMV, NVidia may be working by this point, or I may have just done something
> wrong since I didn't do a whole lot of debug with it, but for me it did not
> work out of the box and Nvidia has known issues with the currently
> distributed production driver with F9.
>
> --Douglas Wagner
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