MythTV Sound Woes
LinuxThe biggest problem I am currently having with MythTV is sound. I have onboard sound which is theoretically disabled in the bios and a Sound Blaster Live! Value which is the one I want to use.
I have tried a number of things.
When I removed the Sound Blaster and tried to use the onboard, I lost all sound.
I tried to set a script to switch the default VLC sound driver to the Sound Blaster.
What really gets me is why the system even sees the onboard sound at all, disabling it from the bios should in theory keep the OS from knowing it is there at all.
What I belive is happening is that at boot time the system sees the two sound cards and assigns them an address, either hw0 or hw1, but not the same every time. So if I boot and the Sound Blaster is set to hw1 and VLC is set to use hw1 then it works, but it is set to hw0 it does not. In this case I have to exit out of MythTV, open VLC preferences and switch the sound hardware address manually, then restart MythTV. Try talking your wife through that over the phone.
I want MythTV to work without having a mouse connected.
I also can't seem to get ISO's to have sound. I belive on this issue I just haven not found the right command switch to open the file.
These issues make me want to give Vista MCE a try. Another plus with using Vista is that I will be able to stream Netflix.
If I can find any of the answers for any of these problems I will update here, if not I will post about Vista MCE.
How to fix your /etc/sudoers permissions
LinuxSo you decided to be brave and mess with your /etc/sudoers file but you end up just breaking it. Or maybe I am the only one who did that.
I was trying to find a way of running the Ubuntu update-manager without having to put my password in. I read that you have to edit the /etc/sudoers file to do that, so no problem, right. First I sudo gedit /etc/sudoers but it tells me that I don't have permissions to do this, no problem, just change the permissions. So I sudo chmod 0640 /etc/sudoers which changes the permissions, what I did realize that sudo does not work unless it has a permission of 0440. So now every time I try and sudo anything I get the message " sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0640, should be 0440" so I cannot sudo chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.
The Fix:
After some more pain and searching for how to fix it, I find that I can just go into recovery mode from the GRUB menu and then chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers and reboot. So once again I avoid a reinstall of Ubuntu
Google Desktop for 64 bit Linux
LinuxI recently went to a fully 64 bit installation of Ubuntu Feisty. The only problems I had were that since I was running 64 bit Java I could not use my old CFEclipse installation anymore and had to download the 64 bit version, also I had to reinstall the my personal finance program, Moneydance , but everything worked fine there once I reinstalled.
I also had problems when I realized there is no 64 bit version of flash and I had to go back to 64 bit FireFox.
Today Google announced the release of Google Desktop for Linux, and while this is not something I typically install onto windows systems, I do know the pain that searching for files in Linux can be so I decided to check it out. After a few minutes of trying to install the program I find that it is not compatible with my 64 bit install.
I read of a few people running the --force-architecture switch when installing, but with a few bugs. I would rather wait on a fully developed product than install a buggy product. I may play with it on a VM so I don't break the rest of my system.
I will update if I play with this and get anything to work, till now I will wait.
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The wonders of MythTV
LinuxFor anybody who does not know about MythTV , it is a wonderful thing, when it is working properly. I have been toying with setting up a media box with my computer and hooking it up to the TV, but raising twins and planning a wedding somehow takes up more time that you would think.
If you don't know about MythTV it is a media center program that run on Linux. It is seperated out with a frontend and a backend so you can run it on multiple computers on the same network. It will play your music, DVD's, live TV, recorded TV, radio, and much more.
Right now I have it setup but it is not working correctly and I have not had time to work on it more. When I get some time I will be reinstalling it and doing a complete writeup on how to set it up and how cool it is.
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