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Installation issues / How to install end of life linuxmce and get mythtv working. [Not Solved]
« on: November 28, 2010, 03:25:41 pm »
I am trying to install lmce 810 since sept, and came upon the end of life mess.
Even today there are workarounds posted here that do not tell me if the project can be installed on my system.
My info:
2 boxes connected by lan, gigabit switch etc, nothing special.
2 lan cards in core.
At the moment the two boxes see each other, I can create orbiters with laptops, etc.
I cannot get mythtv working, and reading how to install or update this system with workarounds is a moving target.
Even posts today of workarounds are confusing at best to someone familiar with Linux, although not much on 'buntu distros.
I hope I can mark this solved soon. IRC chat help is ok, but people come and go in midstream probably distracted by real life. (How dare they)?
[Note: This is for using core running mythtv as a hybrid, the MD will be worked on later].
I installed from snapshot 23436.
Before running the lmce script, (the shortcut on the desktop), I followed both prompts that popped up, such as some default language install error. (Mine is English so I just clicked it away).
The gear on bottom right of screen said I had a few updates, and I followed that but DID NOT upgrade to 9.04, and I told the nag screen not to ask again.
I am not sure of the sequence I used next, but I made sure I had propitiatory nvidia driver installed for my card, a geforce fx5200 with 128MB memory. [A Media Director will be set up later with geforce 8600].
At the time of installation, I was not sure if my sources list was correct, but I did see something saying old-releases in the list, so I thought I was getting the proper packages.
Now I can't get Mythtv running. I was able to get the mythtv software to show up in 'computing' and run the service menu setup of Mythtv. Followed defaults, and set up and edited channels to my local analog cable feed.
I have Schedules Direct account, and I have run Mythtv ok on Mythbuntu, Knoppmyth, and PCLinuxOS (long ago, their major upgrade a few years ago broke my working mythtv.) with same hardware.
I got HDhomerun dual tuner set up, ran scans, it locked into my expected unencrypted qam.
The same HDhomerun can be successfully used at any time form any box on the network withits config program viewer, Windows 7 Media Center runs with no issue, and mythbuntu worked fine.
I do not have any of that stuff on line when working on this lmce install.
So now I await help in assuring I have an install with the correct packages before blaming the Mythtv plugin.
Where do I start? Sources list? Apt-get? Synaptic? (Which shows interesting mythtv packages not installed).
Thanks
Even today there are workarounds posted here that do not tell me if the project can be installed on my system.
My info:
2 boxes connected by lan, gigabit switch etc, nothing special.
2 lan cards in core.
At the moment the two boxes see each other, I can create orbiters with laptops, etc.
I cannot get mythtv working, and reading how to install or update this system with workarounds is a moving target.
Even posts today of workarounds are confusing at best to someone familiar with Linux, although not much on 'buntu distros.
I hope I can mark this solved soon. IRC chat help is ok, but people come and go in midstream probably distracted by real life. (How dare they)?
[Note: This is for using core running mythtv as a hybrid, the MD will be worked on later].
I installed from snapshot 23436.
Before running the lmce script, (the shortcut on the desktop), I followed both prompts that popped up, such as some default language install error. (Mine is English so I just clicked it away).
The gear on bottom right of screen said I had a few updates, and I followed that but DID NOT upgrade to 9.04, and I told the nag screen not to ask again.
I am not sure of the sequence I used next, but I made sure I had propitiatory nvidia driver installed for my card, a geforce fx5200 with 128MB memory. [A Media Director will be set up later with geforce 8600].
At the time of installation, I was not sure if my sources list was correct, but I did see something saying old-releases in the list, so I thought I was getting the proper packages.
Now I can't get Mythtv running. I was able to get the mythtv software to show up in 'computing' and run the service menu setup of Mythtv. Followed defaults, and set up and edited channels to my local analog cable feed.
I have Schedules Direct account, and I have run Mythtv ok on Mythbuntu, Knoppmyth, and PCLinuxOS (long ago, their major upgrade a few years ago broke my working mythtv.) with same hardware.
I got HDhomerun dual tuner set up, ran scans, it locked into my expected unencrypted qam.
The same HDhomerun can be successfully used at any time form any box on the network withits config program viewer, Windows 7 Media Center runs with no issue, and mythbuntu worked fine.
I do not have any of that stuff on line when working on this lmce install.
So now I await help in assuring I have an install with the correct packages before blaming the Mythtv plugin.
Where do I start? Sources list? Apt-get? Synaptic? (Which shows interesting mythtv packages not installed).
Thanks