[mythtv-users] Moved to Intel NUC - no sound & IR

[Simon Hobson]

jam at tigger.ws wrote:

> I’ve had dozens of NUC sucumb to the problem of needing a recent kernel to support the hardware including sound.
> Frankly, since I’ve got the tee-shirt
> - Install a modern distro
> - test hw is working

OK, got Devuan Ascii (amd64) installed, and aplay will make noises now.
Mind you, that was fun. I tried various images, but all I got was "isolinux.bin is missing or corrupt" - I can't remember the last time I actually had to burn an image to CD rather than a USB stick !

Do you think I stand any chance of getting a 0.24.1 frontend to run on it ? Unfortunately, I don't have any debs for the frontend, but on my backend I have all the backend and shared debs - just not the frontend one. I guess finding the right deb will be a challenge, deb-multimedia doesn't seem to keep anything that old.

/var/cache/apt/archives$ ls -1 *myth*
libmyth-0.24-0_0.24.1-0.0squeeze1_amd64.deb
libmythavcodec52_0.24.1-0.0squeeze1_amd64.deb
libmythavcore0_0.24.1-0.0squeeze1_amd64.deb
libmythavformat52_0.24.1-0.0squeeze1_amd64.deb
libmythavutil50_0.24.1-0.0squeeze1_amd64.deb
libmythswscale0_0.24.1-0.0squeeze1_amd64.deb
mythtv-backend_0.24.1-0.0squeeze1_amd64.deb
mythtv-common_0.24.1-0.0squeeze1_all.deb
mythtv-database_0.24.1-0.0squeeze1_all.deb
mythtv-doc_0.24.1-0.0squeeze1_all.deb
mythweb_0.24+fixes20110507-0.0_all.deb
mythweb_0.24+fixes20111029-0.0squeeze1_all.deb
python-mythtv_0.24.1-0.0squeeze1_all.deb


> - play games to upgrade to a recent myth (you may have to upgrade in steps)
> - run mythconverg-backup or at least do a mysqldump before you start. then use that as a recovery aid

That's going to need somewhat more time to do.