Mon, 2006-10-30 15:13 Hi Arturo,
> - if I try changing MythTv theme from the setup (and switching to the blue
> for ex), the keyboard no more works after I reboot the PC (or even after
> exiting MythTv, by pressing ESC).
> More over with the 3.0.1 revision based on MythTv 0.18, the keyboard
> doesn't work at all.
Yes we know about this problem it's a window focus problem that will be
fixed in the next release adding a special window manager.
> - even if I run the customized setup, adding support for USB, USB2, USB
> storage I can't mount my external USB hard drive (it's NTFS formatted)
Yes the next release will have NTFS support since we're moving to 2.6 kernel.
> - I can't shutdown or reboot the PC with the buttons from MythTv menu, and
> I've to reset it, by pressing the button on the case (bad thing...)
> After that, the loading screen takes several seconds locked on CROND
> process, before starting MythTv.
> Otherwise, if I remove the MythTv boot from the customized setup, I can
> reboot and poweroff PC from the CLI without any problem, and even
> restarting the PC I have no problem with CROND.
Might be a permission problem (for reboot we do a sudo reboot for mythtv user) I'll have to look
if mythtv user has rights to do so and fix it if not (in /etc/sudoers)
> - during the installation progress, I noticed that the MythTv running
> version is the 0.19 and not the 0.20 as described in the site.
Yes it's 0.19 with svn updates before official 0.20 release.
> - I tried exiting MythTv to jump to the CLI, or to the desktop, but after
> exiting it, MythTV starts itself again automatically... it would be nice
> jumping to the CLI or to the desktop, and then start again MythTv
> recalling it from the CLI. It would d be useful for running operations
> such as installing drivers for other DVB cards and so on... in fact
> actually, only removing the MythTv boot from the customized setup, I can
> acces the desktop and the CLI.
Right now mythfrontend it's the window manager for the graphic interface. This behaviour will change in the next release (later this year).
Also EPIA-SP will be better supported with kernel 2.6 in terms of graphical performance and accelerated mpeg decoding.
Thanks for your mail.
Joined: 2006-10-27
Hello I've got a VIA EPIA SP1300 motherboard based on a C3 Nehemiah CPU, and I was looking for a light LINUX distribution to turn my board in a MediaCenter.
So, I finally found iMedia MythTv that is exactly what I was looking for!
I'm using the latest 3.0.1 release based on MythTv 0.20, and I wish to point out some problems happened to me:
- if I try changing MythTv theme from the setup (and switching to the blue for ex), the keyboard no more works after I reboot the PC (or even after exiting MythTv, by pressing ESC).
More over with the 3.0.1 revision based on MythTv 0.18, the keyboard doesn't work at all.
- even if I run the customized setup, adding support for USB, USB2, USB storage I can't mount my external USB hard drive (it's NTFS formatted)
- I can't shutdown or reboot the PC with the buttons from MythTv menu, and I've to reset it, by pressing the button on the case (bad thing...)
After that, the loading screen takes several seconds locked on CROND process, before starting MythTv.
Otherwise, if I remove the MythTv boot from the customized setup, I can reboot and poweroff PC from the CLI without any problem, and even restarting the PC I have no problem with CROND.
- during the installation progress, I noticed that the MythTv running version is the 0.19 and not the 0.20 as described in the site.
- I tried exiting MythTv to jump to the CLI, or to the desktop, but after exiting it, MythTV starts itself again automatically... it would be nice jumping to the CLI or to the desktop, and then start again MythTv recalling it from the CLI. It would d be useful for running operations such as installing drivers for other DVB cards and so on... in fact actually, only removing the MythTv boot from the customized setup, I can acces the desktop and the CLI.
In my opinion, iMedia MythTv is a great project and I really hope to see soon some improvements.
I'd be happy to read a reply to my problems...
Thanks,
Arturo