MythTV / PVR-350 Card Troubles, IRQs and Resourse Units
It remains to be seen if this will change anything, but things will be better now Just Because. At lunchtime, I moved the PVR-350 to a different PCI slot. When I started all of this, I slapped it in the top slot, mainly because there were dongles slotted in the middle two. In this case, the two were a slot-mounted Video Out connector and a Coaxial Audio connector for the motherboard. This board is the A7N8X-VM from Asus. An older board, but nothing really wrong with it (that a CMOS battery wouldn’t fix, anyway). It has an 8X AGP slot and three PCI slots. [photopress:a7n8x_vm.jpg,full,centered] Well, here’s a little blast from the past with which you may not be familiar. I don’t know how manufacturers do it now, but...
First Problems – Mythbuntu on PVR-350
[photopress:denon_cable.jpg,full,centered] Maybe I need one of these. Yes, if you click on the link, Denon really wants $500.00 for an ethernet cable. And while you’re there, read the reviews–they are hilarious. I particularly liked the one about this cable can expand the digital range beyond just the pedestrian zeros and ones–this cable can do TWOs, BABY!!! Anyway. Mythbuntu installed fine–except for one small issue. I may be missing it, but after two or three installs, I have never seen an initial IP configuration during setup. I always have stop the Myth Setup, manually configure a static IP address, and then restart Myth. More annoying than anything, but this would be a real show stopper to a true tyro. None the...
New House Blues (MythTV, FreeNAS, and PFSense)
It has certainly been a busy month. We just moved to a new house–which wreaked havoc with my technology. What kicked it all off was that we couldn’t get a line-of-sight with DirecTV. So, that made me switch to Cable TV. And if I’m going to switch to cable, I can save money and get higher speeds on cable Internet (fortunately, I canceled my Dry Loop DSL the day the turned it on, so no charge). Funny thing is, I was more prepared for this move than I ever have been. I had everything scheduled well in advance. Unfortunately, it all either didn’t work, was ignored, or had to be changed. Even the trash service didn’t process my change request. The whole thing has put me two weeks behind on a big announcement...
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