If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is based on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) which has a release date of October 30th. The release notes mentions that:
The guided partitoner in the installer will now default the recordings partition to XFS instead of EXT3.
Lots of bug […]
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I’m back from vacation so some of this is a little dated…
Last week Intel released version 2.4.0 of their linux video driver.
The nex X4500 chipset is supported and also there is now HDMI support for the ASUS P5E-VM board. And then of course bugfixes.
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It has been a long time since KnoppMyth was last updated (Spetember 2007), but now the new version is ready. R5.5 is also called “Bone Marrow” and you can read why here. Nice going, Cecil!
Here is a list of some of the important changes:
MythTV 0.21-fixes
Kernel 2.6.23-chw-4
IVTV 1.2.0
ALSA 1.0.16
Nvidia drivers: 173.14.09, 96.43.05 and 71.86.04.
Updated video drivers […]
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Roku Labs has just released some source code for their $100 Netflix streaming device. Such a move has got to start the thought: Can it be hacked to become a potential MythTV Frontend?
The device is able to play back HD content (1080i/720p) although the currently available content from Netflix is only SD. It has HDMI […]
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The first release of the Linux driver for Hauppauge HD PVR is now available.
MythTV is still not ready to use the driver, but work is getting done.
Snipped from the announcement:
I’m pleased to announce the immediately available of a mercurial repository for the Haupauge HD PVR.
The repository is at http://hg.jannau.net/hdpvr/. Follow the howto at http://linuxtv.org/repo/ but […]
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I often see gadgets that I would love to own. They have that special thing that just makes you want one. Often, I don’t really have a need for it and so that’s a pity…
The Logitech diNovo Mini keyboard has that special thing to it. I don’t know if it is the diminutive size, the […]
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I have written a number of posts here in the past about AppleTV. Lately the procedure for getting a MythTV frontend running on AppleTV has become much more streamlined, so I just thought I would summarize…
There is a new page on the MythTV wiki describing how you can use Gentoo Linux on AppleTV. Gentoo Linux […]
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I’m not currently waiting for anything to be put into the kernel, so for me there is not anything particularly interesting in there, but I guess it all depends on what hardware you have.
Check the very detailed changelog to see if you should upgrade.
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NVIDIA has released what they refer to as a beta release of their Linux driver.
The main points for MythTV users are:
Added support for the following new GPUs:
Quadro FX 3600M
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 9500M GS
GeForce 8400
GeForce 8400 GS
Fixed a problem that caused the synchronization signal polarity to always be positive for DVI devices […]
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