[olug] A short Mythbuntu Report

[Dave Thacker]

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