I originally had all of my information on Blog.com but it suddenly all disappeared. So I have to re input all of the information again.
Live DVD Login;
User = user
Password = password
1. Configure your BIOS.
At startup press the del key to access the BIOS.
Go into Power Management Setup and set PME Event Wake Up to enabled.This is to allow the scheduled recordings to work.
2. Burn .iso to DVD
3. Before installing software, stop the computer and turn the power off for a couple of minutes, then turn power back on, and restart the computer. This clears the RAM and makes for a nicer installation. Install software, click on the ubiquity-gtkui.desktop icon to install the OS. To get to the Desktop either use the escape key to get out of the MythTV screens, or the end key to get out of the MythWelcome screen. When installing OS, click to activate Automatic Log In, unless you have a particular reason for not wanting this to happen.
4. You can play around with the live version but I think it is more productive to load the fully configured OS to your hard drive. The only configuration that should be necessary will be for tuner cards, subsequent tuning of stations and for the remote.
Bypass the Live Installation using the Escape and End keys plus looking at the information that displays on the screen. The End key is used for getting out of the MythWelcome screen.
In the installed OS you can use the Power button on the remote to open and shut MythWelcome. The DVD button is used to start XBMC. Pressing the Power button shuts XBMC. It is probably a good idea to go via the Desktop, using the remote, when going between MythTV and XBMC.
I have experimented with the scripts, resulting in this is being much more reliable. At one stage you would access XBMC, press a remote button to open an XBMC facility and end up being back in MythTV, but this problem is now fixed.
If you have not used XBMC before, I have only just started playing around with it, I suggest you find a guide to using the remote, or just play with the buttons. You will be amazed at the hidden facilities that are available.
5. After you have installed the OS, there are a couple of housekeeping type processes that need to be completed.
Access > Applications > Accessories > Terminal
Run NVIDIA command as root. To do this type in sudo -i, you will then be asked for your normal password.
See Screen-1.png and Screen-2.png, ignore the fact that I have hit enter a few times on Screen-1.png, that was to move the information up the Terminal.
user@computer:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for user:
root@computer:~# nvidia-xconfig
Next step is to get rid of the remastersys files. You do not really have to enter sudo, as you
are already logged in as root.
root@computer:~# sudo remastersys clean
A summary of this process,
user@computer:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for user:
root@computer:~# nvidia-xconfig
Using X configuration file: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf”.
VALIDATION ERROR: Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
Device section “Configured Video Device” must have a Driver
line.
Backed up file ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’ as ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup’
New X configuration file written to ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’
root@computer:~# nvidia-xconfig
Using X configuration file: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf”.
Backed up file ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’ as ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup’
New X configuration file written to ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’
root@computer:~# sudo remastersys clean
Removing the build directory now…
Done…Exiting
root@computer:~# rmdir /home/remastersys
root@computer:~# yum clean all
Cleaning up Everything
root@computer:~#
I run nvidia-xconfig twice, to save a restart freeze and having to restart the system twice.
Access > System > Administration >Start Up Manager and reset the start up screen resolution and quality.
6. I have noticed that even though I entered a particular User name and Password on installation, it seems to have reverted to ‘user’ and ‘password’, which are the ones I allocated for using the Live DVD.
To fix this log in as normal, not root, and enter, passwd,
user@computer:~$ passwd
then follow the prompts.
To change the User name, log in as root, then use the following command,
usermod -l new login name old login name
example,
root@computer:~# usermod -l user01 user
7. An important additional step is to alter the User name in rc.local, to the new User name. This is not necessary, in the amd64 version, of 10.04.22. user@computer:~$ sudo -i #!/bin/sh -e
[sudo] password for user:
root@computer:~# gedit /etc/rc.local
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.
su -c '/usr/bin/irexec -d /home/user/.lircrc' -l user
exit 0
Restart the computer to enable the NVIDIA restore.
8 .Access > System > Administration >Mythbuntu Control Centre
to change the remote setting. The OS is set up for an MCE or the Hauppage equivalent remote.
The one thing, for which I would not use the Mythbuntu Control Centre, is to enable automatic
Log In. My experience has been that the GUI is totally taken over by the rather drab, and not
very user friendly, MythBuntu set up.
9 .Now to check the setup, access > System > Administration > MythTV Backend setup.
I am going to add screen prints of the critical screens with comments, if necessary, to save a
whole lot of typing.
10 .Now to > Applications > Sound & Video > MythTV Frontend.
11 .If you are new to Linux you will find the Synaptic Package Manager very interesting to explore. You will quickly realise that installing software in Linux can be just as easy as Windows.
Access > System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager.
EeeMC 1.01
MythTV based on Eeebuntu with XBMC added. Basically it is a fully setup Linux system with all of the necessary script changes and sudoers authorities completed. So with minimal setup requirements the user will have an excellent HTPC based on the well sorted Eeebuntu 9.04 base.
Note: This download is an .iso file which needs to be burned to DVD.
What´s New in version 1.01:
- Upgrade version EeeMC 1.01 with a dedicated, newly developed, EeeMC theme.
- Also, the size of the .iso image has dropped from 2 GB to 1.06 GB. This reduction was the result of my finding an old .iso image left in a folder which I had forgotten about.
- Switching between MythTV and XBMC has been vastly improved and is now controlled by the DVD button on the remote.
- Eeebuntu 3 kernel upgraded to 2.6.28-18-generic, plus all of the latest recommended updates.
- This application works particularly well, and with the new theme has a pleasing and sophisticated presentation.
Links,
http://dc179.4shared.com/download/222147909/faaf5035/EeeMC-101.iso
FreewareFiles U.S.
LINE SPEED: (1,000MBPS) 1GigE!
http://www.freewarefiles.com/EeeMC_program_54893.html
This is the page that controls the system for scheduled recordings. I set idle time at 240 seconds, Max wait for recording at 10 minutes, and startup before record at 120 seconds.
Access>Applications>Sound & Video>MythTV Frontend>Utilities/Setup>Setup>General>Program Exit and enter the Halt Command.
This is the screen that needs to be returned to after scheduling recordings.
