[mythtvnz] 18.04 and mythtv

[Rory Grant]

update-manager -c tried to update me to 17.10 and then crashed halfway
through. I had to manually change the sources.d list to bionic, then apt
dist-upgrade on the command line.  I panicked a bit when their were some
broken dependencies, but I eventually managed to force the upgrade.
Also, the xbmc ppa did not have kodi 17 packages for bionic, so I had to
uninstall, then install from the main ubuntu repo.

After the upgrade it has been plain sailing.  I'm on Mythtv 0.28 and Kodi
17 and quite happy.

One issue I did face was screen scaling - gnome only has full integers for
scaling factors - 100% on a 40" 1080p screen is too hard to read from
across the room, but 200% scaling is far too big.  I eventually managed to
get a scaling factor I was comfortable with by messing around with a combo
of the gnome settings app and xrandr  This was the xrandr command I used,
but it also required toggling back and forth on the settings app to get it
right.

~$ xrandr --output HDMI-0 --scale 1.25x1.25

At least it retains the scaling when I turn the screen on and off.  Unity
would forget every time, I think because my HDMI passes through a Yamaha
Home Theatre amplifier which cludges the EDID.

On 9 May 2018 at 14:37, Robert Fisher <robert at fisher.net.nz> wrote:

> Has anyone tried upgrading (MythBuntu) 16.04 to 18.04?
> Any horror stories or success stories?
>
> On 8 May 2018 at 05:48, Karl <skooobie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow awesome. I think I might restart over again from scratch then. Cheers.
>>
>> On Mon, 7 May 2018, 22:24 Stephen Worthington, <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 06 May 2018 09:31:53 +0000, you wrote:
>>>
>>> >I can post some logs tomorrow. I've setup myth many times with no issues
>>> >all under Ubuntu before. But bionic seems to have changed the field a
>>> >little. Other than that and a bug with network not resuming after
>>> suspend
>>> >waking it is a fantastic os. Super fast.
>>>
>>> I have just done an Xubuntu 18.04 + MythTV 29+fixes install in
>>> VirtualBox using an IPTV tuner, and it all seems to be working, except
>>> EPG which I have not set up yet.  The only problem I had was getting
>>> the audio working, which required changing the virtual machine
>>> settings from AC97 to Intel HD emulation.  I even remembered to
>>> install MariaDB before installing MythTV so I did not get MySQL
>>> installed by default.
>>>
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