Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Mobility TV-OUT

[Mark Knecht]

On 9/4/06, Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> wrote:

>
> Frequent updating of myth machines is a mistake in my humble experience.
> get it right, then stop!
>
> For this reason i moved from gentoo to knoppmyth for my myth box. Never
> been happier.
>

Nick,
   Who said 'frequent'?

   I more or less agree, and I appreciate all your help in the past,
but this time your comment isn't directly helpful. (As a Gentoo user)
On the other hand it does serve to create some user-oriented
conversation so thanks for that.

   The 0.18 revision had bugs. The backend hung or shutdown Myth 3
time a week when the network got busy. (Just finished recording two
jobs, just start transcoding them, started recording two more and was
being accessed by a couple of frontend machines all at the same time.
This was almost guaranteed to cause the 0.18 backend to just
shutdown...)  The machines were running old kernels on old Gentoo
profiles. When the profiles and kernels get updated then you find that
the ati-drivers package doesn't work with the new kernel. Our Myth
backend machine is a Gentoo desktop serving double duty. That machine
needs to be updated, which then drives us to update the network, when
then causes us to have to update the frontends because the Myth devs
won't allow a 0.18 frontend to run with 0.19 backend. We we stuck.
Bummer.

   Again, I'm not really complaining. The network is up and running
again, but it is not as enjoyable as it used to be. While 0.19 is far
more stable than 0.18, the video on my ATI-based frontend machines is
really lousy to watch. No WAF or KAF at this time...

   I don't see how I Would have used KnoppMyth in this setup, but
maybe I could have tried it on a frontend-only machine, if it had
built in support for the ati-drivers I end up needing to get TV-out.

Thanks,
Mark
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