[mythtv-users] [mythtv] MythTV Raspberry Pi2 frontend testers

[Joseph Fry]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 5:11 AM, Lawrence Rust <lvr at softsystem.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 23:11 +0000, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>>>> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:05 PM John McEntee <jmcentee9 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > > > Is there any point to testing on the first version RPi? I have
>>>> two that
>>>> > > are currently idle.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > At a guess it will not have enough memory to work, but a definitive
>>>> answer
>>>> > > will be useful. Even just it can then be quoted when others ask.
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > Looks like the Pi2 running your git server may have crashed. Is there
>>>> > somewhere you could post the patch?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We had a storm last night that caused a blackout for a while.  Should
>>>> all be back up and working now.  Apologies for the inconvenience.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Anyone else getting an unexpected EOF extracting the bz2 file?  I
>>> downloaded it twice (sorry for the hit to your bandwidth), same issue both
>>> times.
>>>
>>
>> Disregard, i'm an idiot.
>>
>> I didn't realize that wget would append a .1 or .2 to the file name
>> rather than overwrite the file.  I terminated my first download early on,
>> hoping to find a torrent of it, then restarted it, but of course I didn't
>> bother to notice that the subsequent download had a .1 at the end.
>>
>
> Just to save others the headache; the precompiled package is not
> compatible with Raspbian Jessie, libicu is at version 5.2, but it's looking
> for 4.8.  Rather than working through dependancy hell, I am just installing
> Wheezy to give it a shot.
>

So, got it installed on Raspbian Wheezy, when I run it I get the DB
configuration window, then it restarts and gives me a black screen with a
mouse cursor (if I move the mouse).

Really cool that this appears to be running in directfb, no need for X!
Even cooler if I could get the frontend to display.

Am I missing something?  If I could switch to the console and see the
output I may be able to figure out where its failing, but I don't know how
to kill it without a reboot (ctrl-alt-del).
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