mythfrontend sometimes freezes on me. So I configured a button on my remote control to enable me to kill mythfrontend and restart it. This is really useful especially if you don’t have a keyboard and mouse plugged into your machine all the time or if you just want to make it all wife friendly. Here’s [...]
I previously posted details on how to setup Fedora Core 9/10/11 for auto login. Well I’ve recently downloaded and install Fedora Core 12 on my mythtv server and it still works. Here’s how to do it: Edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and add this to the file. You could use gedit or vi whatever suits you, but you [...]
As you may not I’m a big fan of mythtv and I want to have Fedora Core 9 (it’s works for 10 and 11 too) login automatically when the PC is booted up. For some reason on Fedora 9 gdm is different and you can’t easily configure it to auto login through the GUI, but [...]
I purchased a DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express recently and I had quite a hard time getting it to work on Fedora Core 10 (FC10). I did get it to work so I thought I would share what I did. It works well on mythtv. Step 1) Download v4l-dvb version that works! hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/v4l-dvb/ [...]
Fedora 10 is finally out! I’ve been waiting for this for some time now. I note these improvements: ext4 filesystem support, glitch-free audio and better support for remote controls (release notes –> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/). It’s just what the doctor ordered for getting my mythtv server to perform better than ever before. I’m going to take the [...]
