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2005-08-12 - things have been humming along fine lately, but tonight everything was broken. Mythtv couldn't connect to the database, although the mysql command-line client could. Turns out that I needed to install a package called libqt3c102-mt-mysql that must have been uninstalled at some point. Since Debian released Sarge it has been less stable than usual on the unstable branch. Can't complain too much, though, it's still pretty stable considering how bleeding-edge the packages are. In trying to figure out what went wrong I ended up upgrading the the bleeding-edge mythtv, too. I hope it works OK. | ||||||||
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| < < | 2005-11-20 - The laptop that we watch TV on had gone funky - the display works fine but the backlight would switch off after a couple of seconds, which makes it hard to watch. Luckily, my Dad came through with an LCD panel (and a 2nd-hand computer) for my birthday so now I've got the laptop working with the external panel. It's not as easy to do as I thought it would be. The issue is that the Radeon chip in the laptop treats the panel and the external VGA adapter as two independent displays, so you need to do a little X.org configuration hacking to get the primary display on the external panel. The key (for me) was explicitly specifying a wide range for the VGA connector's clocks so that X would allow it to run at 1280x1024. After that, X looked beautiful but mythtv and xine didn't work. Turns out that the "Xv" interface that X uses to display video only works on one display or the other, and it works on the internal panel by default. So you need to use the xvattr tool (http://freshmeat.net/projects/xvattr/) to switch Xv to use the external display, e.g. xvattr -a XV_SWITCHCRT -v 1. | |||||||
| > > | 2005-11-20 - The laptop that we watch TV on had gone funky - the display works fine but the backlight would switch off after a couple of seconds, which makes it hard to watch. Luckily, my Dad came through with an LCD panel (and a 2nd-hand computer) for my birthday so now I've got the laptop working with the external panel. It's not as easy to do as I thought it would be. The issue is that the Radeon chip in the laptop treats the panel and the external VGA adapter as two independent displays, so you need to do a little X.org configuration hacking to get the primary display on the external panel. The key (for me) was explicitly specifying a wide range for the VGA connector's clocks so that X would allow it to run at 1280x1024. After that, X looked beautiful but mythtv and xine didn't work. Turns out that the "Xv" interface that X uses to display video only works on one display or the other, and it works on the internal panel by default. So you need to use the xvattr tool (http://freshmeat.net/projects/xvattr/) to switch Xv to use the external display, e.g. xvattr -a XV_SWITCHCRT -v 1. I made a file called /etc/X11/Xsession.d/98xvattr so that xvattr gets run when X starts. | |||||||
2005-12-19 - moved the tuner card and 200GB disk from phoenix to sandcastle, and am in the process of getting everything working again. I didn't take good enough notes last time so I'm having to re-figure-out more than I'd like. So far it's been pretty easy - I needed to enable recording on the line input using amixer sset Line,0 mute cap. | ||||||||
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| 2006-02-06 - watching live TV works fine, but recording shows doesn't seem to work. I'll try to fix this by deleting both cards in mythtv-setup and then re-adding the pvr-500. Seems to work now; it's cool to see it recording two shows at the same time and using almost 0 CPU. | ||||||||
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| > > | 2006-04-13 - had to make some changes due to the new X windows in Debian. First off, it appears as if the external display is display 0 now, so I don't need to run xvattr anymore. | |||||||
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