{"id":553,"date":"2006-01-16T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T05:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/upgraded-mythtv-box-to-breezy\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T17:04:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T07:04:10","slug":"upgraded-mythtv-box-to-breezy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/upgraded-mythtv-box-to-breezy\/","title":{"rendered":"upgraded mythtv box to breezy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got arround to upgrading the mythtv box. Less RAM being used is good &#8211; it&#8217;s only got 512MB and some of the recordings were getting pretty fragmented due to having to flush things to disk a bit too often. Hopefully things will be a bit better now.<\/p>\n<p>Annoying things were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Having to reboot into the old kernel to get the wireless driver to download the new kernel source package<\/li>\n<li>having to again reboot to get gcc-3.4 to build the rt2570 module with the gcc-3.4 compiled kernel<\/li>\n<li>rebuilding lirc again (but that&#8217;s easy)<\/li>\n<li>still having to manually load the sound card driver.<\/li>\n<li>no fancy boot screen (at least on my lilo setup)<\/li>\n<li>no automagic convert to grub now that it seems to work with XFS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But a lot less painful than previous big upgrades. The debian way between releases is so nice it&#8217;s not funny.<\/p>\n<p>Things left to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>rebuild mythtv with proper lirc support so i can stop using irxevent and get lirc going with an auto launching xine\/mplayer and use the box properly as a DVD player too. (this is not actually related to the ubuntu upgrade, it&#8217;s just a thing i&#8217;ve wanted to do for a while &#8211; and it&#8217;s my own fault i didn&#8217;t do it right in the first place)<\/li>\n<li>upgrade from mysql 4.0 to 5.0 (hey, maybe 5.1 ndb dd just to really be eating our own dogfood :) &#8211; again, not related to the ubuntu upgrade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also set it up to tape the tennis, although at a low priority so my lovely flatmate doesn&#8217;t get annoyed if she misses her shows :)<\/p>\n<p>Oh how I need more tuner cards.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/bethesignal.org\/\">jdub<\/a> for quickly asking what the upgrade issue was. No thanks goes to me for making my things left to do list look like it was related to the upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got arround to upgrading the mythtv box. Less RAM being used is good &#8211; it&#8217;s only got 512MB and some of the recordings were getting pretty fragmented due to having to flush things to disk a bit too often. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/upgraded-mythtv-box-to-breezy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-gadgets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-8V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":589,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/mythtv-lircrc-with-xine-goodnees\/","url_meta":{"origin":553,"position":0},"title":"mythtv lircrc with xine goodnees","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-02-20","format":false,"excerpt":"xine --keymap=lirc Is a useful command to run. 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