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Hi All..Is  it possible to use wvdial for internet connection instead of eth0..if possible can direct me to such resource..thanx

Currently LinuxMCE 0810 is quite unstable and between updates some things are being broken, the obvious solution is to create backup or snapshot before doing any update and then revert back if any issues are found.

Don't upgrade if things are working for you.

ps. As I'm Fedora user and yum had neat "yum downgrade" feature, not sure if apt-get has something similar. If it does then it would be a simple task of just checking which packages were updated in last update and downgrading the problematic one to version that worked ok.

Code:

apt-get install package=version-you-want-installed

I was just trying to be helpful with the links, I think I can do without facial recognition

And I didn't realise that about Picasa! I thought "Google = open source", obviously not the case!

Currently LinuxMCE 0810 is quite unstable and between updates some things are being broken, the obvious solution is to create backup or snapshot before doing any update and then revert back if any issues are found.

I would like to start using 0810 for my flat and not worry about when (not if) some update will break my system

I don't expect that this feature be implemented in LinuxMCE but some more skilled linux users could do this manually or with few scripts. I use LVM but haven't used it's snapshot feature because it has one big drawback you have to specify snapshot volume size and once you run out of that space there are no more snapshots, also each snapshot (if you do it daily or weekly) creates new full size image that takes lots of space. Also snapshots significantly degrada LVM performance.

Btrfs and ZFS have much better snapshots that do copy-on-write shapshots, ta. Btrfs is not available in 0810, but will be when LinuxMCE switches to Ubuntu 10.04. ZFS is only available in userspace so you can't use it for your root partition

Any thoughts on this?

I was thinking of trying btrfs on LinuxMCE, I can get kernel up to date with btrfs support without problem, but not sure if it is possible to install btrfs tools from Ubuntu 10.04 debs on LinuxMCE 0810. Any thoughts? Suggestions?

Andrew if I understood you have your own update repositories for Dianemo, right? You probably test carefully everything before pushing out an update, or you don't even do any remote updates?

Do any of you thing this is even worth the trouble?

ps. As I'm Fedora user and yum had neat "yum downgrade" feature, not sure if apt-get has something similar. If it does then it would be a simple task of just checking which packages were updated in last update and downgrading the problematic one to version that worked ok.

I have just purchased a HDHomerun DVBT Australian version.

I have installed and tuned channels into this with the software that came with the device for windows.

When I try to set this up in Mythtv I installed the tuners and assigned the channels to it that I already scanned with my DTV2000H, changing tuners in Mythtv using "Y" has some issues however I managed to open PIP and the HDHomerun does not receive a lock on the channels.

After this I removed my DVT2000H and all of the channels and started with Mythtv from scratch, add the HDHomerun both tuners configure the Video Sources and Input Connections scan for channels it appears that the HDHomerun receives a channel lock the tuner light flashes on in the front when the Locked is displayed at the top of Mythtv however upon completion of the scan Mythtv comes up with "No new channels found"

Has anyone had any success or possibly know what might be causing the issue, I also have Mythtv install on a FC 13 laptop and it has the same issue.

Thanks

Jamie
 

Andrew,
got it, you explained it really clearly.

Thanks,
Valent.

Your links are are great but LinuxMCE devels are already swamped with tasks, so until some new blood starts joining the devel ranks there is little to no chance of some major new features like this.

ps. Picasa is not open source software.

instead of 1 did you "try" 3 ??

Just try a few and wait for a full minute or so before pressing anything else.

For me 3 normally works too.

Richard

It's DVI, it's 1, and I mentioned I tried that in my post.  Though I suppose I was a bit unclear about that.

(Also my computer doesn't beep when I do that, which it should... but it's not beeping at all so I think I screwed something up on the hardware side. XD)

Oh, right, I should add that it doesn't work through either DVI or VGA.  I had a TV with a VGA input lying around, so I tested that and it didn't work.  And the card doesn't have component or composite outputs so I can't test those...

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/AVWizard

check the wiki for your correct key for your connector

for what ever reason most of my tv's seem to work for me by pressing 3 regardless of the connector being used

HTH

Tim