[olug] A short Mythbuntu Report

[Kenny Kant]

Dave,

Thanks for posting your experience with this.  I am also looking for a
good way to run my myth-frontend within a Window instead of full screen.
Right now I just alt-tab out of it when not watching (this is on Gutsy
desktop going to a mythbuntu 7.10 backend)

I would be interested when you find a solution!

Kenny


On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 20:51 -0500, Dave Thacker wrote:
> I did a successful Mythbuntu install today from a the 7.10 Live CD.   It was 
> very painless, within a couple of hours I was watching basketball and 
> recording an episode of CSI.   
> 
> I'm using a Dell Pentium 1.7Ghz for the backend.  The Mythbuntu CD installed 
> without major problems and I had the 5 step MythTV setup in front of me.  I 
> did have some kind of theme/display glitch inside of the setup script.  My 
> mouse was only visible inside of a text box, which made navigation a bit of a 
> pain, but still workable.  I used my notes from Jon L's presentation last 
> fall to set things up, and had no problems with the major settings.  
> 
> When setting up the MythTV I told the backend that the server and myth server 
> were both at 192.168.1.110.  I wondered if Myth was actually setting the IP 
> in /etc/network/interfaces.  The answer  was no.  When I rebooted the box for 
> the first time, it still sent out for a DHCP address, so I dropped back to 
> xfce and set it properly.   
> 
> After my stunning success with the backend, I went back upstairs and used 
> Adept to pull down the mythtv-frontend package for my main desktop PC.  After 
> a trip back downstairs to get the mysql password, I was rewarded with the 
> main MythTV screen.  I hit "Watch TV" and played with the controls while 
> Kansas outlasted Davison.  
> 
> Still to do:
> 1) Learn to program recordings carefully.  I had no idea that "Hannah Montana" 
> was shown that often.
> 2) FInd a way to run the frontend in a window instead of full screen, so I can 
> pretend to get work done.   I think I saw some window configuration tools in 
> the Appearances section of setup, but when I enabled "Run in A Window" the 
> window Myth ran in was not re-sizeable.
> 3) Play with the music and DVD settings
> 4) Buy a DVD Burner
> 5) Buy a bigger hard drive
> 6) Find out if someone who has Fox Soccer channel will ship me a few 
> Premiership matches or Aussie Rules Football matches.
> 
> PS.  DIT (be nice, I have family that works there) had a Blu-Ray reader on the 
> counter yesterday.  Are any of them working in Linux yet?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
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