[mythtvnz] Moment of insanity

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:01 PM, toby at np.co.nz <toby at np.co.nz> wrote:
>>I am contemplating doing an LTS->LTS upgrade on my backend, then
>>frontends to follow=2E What sort of problems did you have (other than
>>the ones you have listed, or that were peculiar to your wireless
>>linked backends setup)
>
> - nvidia drivers did not work at native resolutions on clients with MX4000
> cards (still outstanding)

hopefully this won't affect my newer nvidia cards

> - it broke all my tftp stuff for diskless, had to reinstall and reconfigure

not using that

> - dvd drives not mounting (haven't investigated this much yet)

don't really do dvds

> - epgsnoop broke, had to install some extra python stuff that seemed to go
> away during the upgrade

don't use epgsnoop

> - lirc needed to be reconfigured from scratch (irblaster for sky)

OK

> - nfs broke and needed some prodding to get it going again

don't use it

> - PVR150 keeps going away after a reboot (still outstanding)
>

don't use my pvr150 any more.

> Not too bad considering the scale of the upgrade

sounds like I should be sweet!

> You will have to do your frontends at the same time as 0.23 is not
> backwards compatible with previous versions.
>

I know. The frontends have little on them compared to the backend,
basically mythtv, xbmc and damn all else. If I have to blow them away,
I will.

> Also, install the autobuilds and update to the latest 0.23 + fixes, myth
> was not stable until I did that as 0.23 still has a large number of daily
> fixes released.
>
> The new myth gui is very nice!!!

yeah I am presently stuck on 0.21. I'll see how time goes this weekend.