[ale] Mythtv Build-In

[H P Ladds]

Chris,

Thanks, the Build-In can use any and all brainpower. Your knowledge and
experience will be a big help. Agreed, if your autoyast install is used, all
bug reports go to you.

I'm hesitant to directly contact Emory Law School to see if the facilities
would be available for the Build-In. Emory is and has been very generous to
ALE. I'd like to get the OK from ALE's organizers before pursuing the use of
the Emory's facilities for the Build-In. Do you happen to know who within
ALE I should contact before contacting Emory?

I too get an ironic (rebel in the belly of the establishment) sense from
attending ALE meetings at a law school.  However, the EFF vigorously argues
in defense of "Digital Rights" and "Fair Use" before the highest courts in
the land.  http://www.eff.org/legal/victories. Hosting a Build-In at a law
school is entirely appropriate. Heck -- it might even catch the imagination
and inspire a law student.

Would a PXE install require any special networking equipment?


On 3/20/06, Chris Farris <jcf at primeharbor.com> wrote:
>
> I've been working on a project to autoyast install MythTV boxes. My
> setup requires a box that supports PXE and has a PVR350 card in it. I'll
> be happy to install for anyone at this event - so long as you agree to
> send me bug reports.
>
> I suggest we see if we can't do it at Emory. I find great irony in doing
> this at a law school. That and the location is central.
>
> Chris
>
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:30 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > I've been hammering intermittently on trying to get MythTV to work for a
> > few months now.
> >
> > Mostly, I'm finding the whole thing to be very twitchy as far as just
> > getting it working goes.  I initially tried to get it going on Gentoo
> > and I got as far as getting composite input to work, but when I moved
> > the whole thing over to the TV and wired up the output, nothing worked
> > right anymore.  I then installed KnoppMyth, but just when I nearly had
> > that going, something I did - probably trying to fix something - kept it
> > from working right ever again, so I went back to the Gentoo route.  I
> > let it sit for about a month and a half while I dealt with other
> > crises^H^H^H^H^H^Hthings and I only just recently started working on it
> > again - I'm as far as getting X going with the Nvidia (not nv) driver.
> > There is Gentoo MythTV info and there's MythTV info, and one kind of has
>
> > to pick through both of them together along with the appropriate IRC
> > channel.  Timeliness of documentation is very important; you have to
> > know, for instance, that you have to jump ahead of Portage to get an
> > 8000-series Nvidia or no joy.
> >
> > At least I know that my hardware (TV included) functions.  One thing
> > that messed me up was that different devices react in different ways to
> > having null S-Video input, so, if you're looking at a blank screen when
> > you think you ought to be seeing something, one must make sure to
> > power-cycle the TV and perhaps the active switcher box in between it and
> > the MythTV box.
> >
> > I also had to do things like buy S-Video cables with rubber-covered
> > connectors that I could whittle down in order for the connector to fit
> > into the Nvidia card or the TV.
> >
> > Mike Harrison wrote:
> >
> > >>we, uh, go to bed early, because our dogs get us up at 5am.. so we
> > >>watch TV from 7-9pm most nights. The other nights we sit out on the
> > >>porch and watch.... the trees!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >Porch and Trees.. One of my favorite shows!
> > >My house: 1300sqft. My deck:  600+sqft.
> > >The view: Awesome.
> > >
> > >-------
> > >
> > >   And that's why, although I'm bringing my MythTV box to the meeting
> > >and it's awesome. It's also not been watched or used in weeks..
> > >Nor has the TV Set.. It's just been too nice outside.
> > >
> > >But the next meeting, the really technical guy will be Jessee
> Guardiani,
> > >who uses his MythTV box a -LOT- and not just as a PVR, but as a game
> > >system, web browser.. etc.. etc..  and has munged and hacked it a lot.
> > >
> > >
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