Author: Keith

Dammit. Having made all my wonderful fixes and upgrades to the mythbox, the “new” fan proves itself not up to the job. So now I have a desk fan pointing into the open case on my floor whenever I need to use it. Not very good, is it? Also, whilst adding a new table to… Continue reading Blast!/Spring clean

It’s about the only thing I *have* done during this week of supposedly doing things and playing games…I’ve got such a stupid cough I can’t even play games! But – some parts arrived today so new to the mythbox:Replaced whining fan with even older, but working fan. Added third tuner card (another Hauppauge Nova-T DVB… Continue reading Mythtv upgrades

An attempt to save somebody, somewhere, some time if they run into the same problem as me. SYMPTOMS: No guide data at all, for no good reason. System status says “no guide data – is mythfilldatabase running?”. If you stop the backend then run mythbackend from a terminal (I did it with options “-v eit”… Continue reading Mythtv: no EIT data (program table crashed)

Ignoring the creationism museum thing, this response made me laugh out loud.

Just upgraded the Mythbox to Xubuntu 6.10 (Edgy). To make it autologin and start X automatically, see the instructions in this PDF file, created by amalgamating two posts from this thread on ubuntuforums.