first, ever look at mythtv compared to straight-on hdtv? i'm really, really surprised at how disappointing the picture quality is in myth. lots of horizontal lines. enable bob2x deinterlace and not a big improvement; picture doesn't have thos lines, but OSD completely unreadable. hate to say it but windows MCE with nvidia purevideo blew this away... (but had it's own problems, like suddenly not having rights to watch something it just recorded, so having to use media player 11 for playback where drm issues arose like that).
sigh... hoping it has something to do with chatter about "xvmc being broken in 'current' nvidia binary driver release." anyone else notice this? crawler text is so clear through the vizio's own qam tuner or through the cable box, but so ugly through myth, though less noticeably so from across the room. my sincere apologies to the myth folks though if i have slurred an nvidia/xvmc issue into a myth issue. myth *really* is impressive, and all the more so on a server so useful as sme.
anyway, heeeeeeeere's yummy! (the yum logs, that is....)
Clean install of sme 7.3.... configured as server & gateway, enabled ssh for root, let the rkhunter complaints in admin email begin....
Enable ssh -X as per howto...
Feb 09 11:34:06 Installed: xorg-x11-xauth.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2
Install myth as per /MythTV howto adding --enablerepo=atrpms --enablerepo=dag to some lines...
Feb 09 12:17:31 Installed: libmng.i386 1.0.8-1
Feb 09 12:17:32 Installed: qt.i386 1:3.3.3-13.RHEL4
Feb 09 12:17:32 Installed: libjpeg-devel.i386 6b-33
Feb 09 12:17:32 Installed: zlib-devel.i386 1.2.1.2-1.2
Feb 09 12:17:32 Installed: libpng-devel.i386 2:1.2.7-3.el4_5.1
Feb 09 12:17:32 Installed: freetype-devel.i386 2.1.9-6.el4
Feb 09 12:17:33 Installed: fontconfig-devel.i386 2.2.3-13.el4
Feb 09 12:17:33 Installed: libmng-devel.i386 1.0.8-1
Feb 09 12:17:34 Installed: umb-scheme.i386 3.2-36.EL4
Feb 09 12:17:34 Installed: guile.i386 5:1.6.4-14
Feb 09 12:17:34 Installed: swig.i386 1.3.21-6
Feb 09 12:17:36 Installed: libstdc++-devel.i386 3.4.6-9
Feb 09 12:17:36 Installed: neon.i386 0.24.7-4
Feb 09 12:17:37 Installed: glibc-kernheaders.i386 2.4-9.1.100.EL
Feb 09 12:17:37 Installed: glibc-headers.i386 2.3.4-2.39
Feb 09 12:17:37 Installed: glibc-devel.i386 2.3.4-2.39
Feb 09 12:17:38 Installed: pkgconfig.i386 1:0.15.0-3
Feb 09 12:17:40 Installed: xorg-x11-devel.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2
Feb 09 12:17:40 Installed: cpp.i386 3.4.6-9
Feb 09 12:17:41 Installed: gcc.i386 3.4.6-9
Feb 09 12:17:41 Installed: mysqlclient10.i386 3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1
Feb 09 12:17:41 Installed: gcc-c++.i386 3.4.6-9
Feb 09 12:17:42 Installed: python-devel.i386 2.3.4-14.4.el4_6.1
Feb 09 12:17:42 Installed: subversion.i386 1.1.4-2.ent
Feb 09 12:17:46 Installed: qt-devel.i386 1:3.3.3-13.RHEL4
Feb 09 12:17:46 Installed: qt-MySQL.i386 1:3.3.3-13.RHEL4
Feb 09 12:17:46 Installed: ncurses-devel.i386 5.4-15.el4
Feb 09 12:39:46 Installed: alsa-lib.i386 1.0.6-5.RHEL4
Feb 09 12:39:46 Installed: libraw1394_8.i386 1.3.0-3_11.el4
Feb 09 12:39:46 Installed: libiec61883_0.i386 1.1.0-0_9.el4.at
Feb 09 12:39:46 Installed: libXvMCW.i386 0.9.3-4.el4.at
Feb 09 12:39:46 Installed: lame.i386 3.97-1.el4.rf
Feb 09 12:39:46 Installed: libmythavutil-0.20.2_0.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:46 Installed: libogg.i386 2:1.1.3-7.el4.at
Feb 09 12:39:48 Installed: mythtv-themes.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:48 Installed: audiofile.i386 1:0.2.6-1.el4.1
Feb 09 12:39:48 Installed: esound.i386 1:0.2.35-2
Feb 09 12:39:48 Installed: libvorbis.i386 1:1.1.0-2.el4.5
Feb 09 12:39:49 Installed: arts.i386 8:1.3.1-2
Feb 09 12:39:49 Installed: libraw1394.i386 0.10.1-3
Feb 09 12:39:49 Installed: libavc1394.i386 0.4.1-4.EL
Feb 09 12:39:49 Installed: libfreebob.i386 1.0.0-3.el4.at
Feb 09 12:39:49 Installed: jack-audio-connection-kit.i386 0.102.20-3.el4.at
Feb 09 12:39:49 Installed: libmythui-0.20.2_0.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:50 Installed: libmythfreemheg-0.20.2_0.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:50 Installed: libmythlivemedia-0.20.2_0.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:50 Installed: lirc.i386 0.6.6-4.2.el4.rf
Feb 09 12:39:51 Installed: libmyth-0.20.2_0.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:51 Installed: libmythupnp-0.20.2_0.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:51 Installed: libdca.i386 0.0.5-1.el4.rf
Feb 09 12:39:51 Installed: libmythavcodec-0.20.2_0.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:51 Installed: libmythavformat-0.20.2_0.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:52 Installed: libmythtv-0.20.2_0.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:52 Installed: mythtv-backend.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:52 Installed: mythweb.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:53 Installed: mythtv-frontend.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:39:53 Installed: mythtv-setup.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:40:50 Installed: mythtv-docs.i386 0.20.2-172.el4
Feb 09 12:43:26 Installed: perl-Video-ivtv.i386 0.13-8.el4.at
Feb 09 12:43:26 Installed: ivtv-firmware.noarch 2:20070217-16
Feb 09 12:43:26 Installed: perl-Video-Frequencies.noarch 0.03-4.el4.at
Feb 09 12:43:27 Installed: ivtv-kmdl-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp.i686 1:0.4.10-114.el4
Feb 09 12:43:27 Installed: ivtv.i386 1:0.4.10-114.el4
Kept getting seg faults trying to run mythtv-setup over ssh -X.... so wanted to try any x program. Saw xpdf in server-manager panel.
Install xpdf + it's deps...
Feb 10 13:41:18 Installed: xorg-x11-font-utils.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2
Feb 10 13:41:19 Installed: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2
Feb 10 13:41:19 Installed: openmotif.i386 2.2.3-10.1.el4
Feb 10 13:41:19 Installed: desktop-file-utils.i386 0.9-3.el4
Feb 10 13:41:21 Installed: redhat-menus.noarch 3.7.1-2
Feb 10 13:41:21 Installed: htmlview.noarch 3.0.0-8
Feb 10 13:41:21 Installed: chkfontpath.i386 1.10.0-2
Feb 10 13:41:21 Installed: ttmkfdir.i386 3.0.9-20.el4
Feb 10 13:41:23 Installed: urw-fonts.noarch 2.2-6.1
Feb 10 13:41:26 Installed: fonts-xorg-base.noarch 6.8.2-1.EL
Feb 10 13:41:26 Installed: xpdf.i386 1:3.00-14.el4
Feb 10 13:41:27 Installed: xorg-x11-xfs.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2
...and suddenly mythtv-setup runs, though w/ no fonts on main menu. That'll do though.
Thought this would help autostart mythbackend; doesn't:
Feb 10 16:06:28 Installed: smeserver-service_control.noarch 1.1-2
For firewire control of dct.6200 for use with ivtv (not yet installed) or firewire-direct tuner, need firewire mod.
... googled firewire kernel module el4 and output of 'uname -r' -- found in .ch....
Feb 10 17:00:26 Installed: firewire.i686 1286-5.sl4.psi
Feb 10 17:00:28 Installed: kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp.i686 1286-5.sl4.psi
Again, frontend is mythbuntu w/ nvidia binary and xvmc (gray osd, not blue/red), running over cat5e 100mbps direct through a switch.
To do:
- add two more 500gb sata hds in as an independent raid array for "media" -- all myth, photos, videos, music. why? back up far less often, no need to mix in with primary array which would cause far longer backups, far longer rebuilds after reinstall/recovery. have drives, just have to follow the single sparse post in theforums on how to do this....
- test egroupware w/ gallery2 plugin for security holes
- port-forward vpn pptp inbound to sme from hardware firewall (my insurance against my mistakes); currently not accessible from outside.
- once sme is household gateway (currently an isolated branch), test funambol syncml w/ egroupware w/ php5-cgi which is already running (funambol syncml from windows mobile currently gives errors, possibly because wifi access point on house net with external eth1 to sme, not in little switch that's local to sme.
- if pptp vpn stable, fast, best, disable all other open ports (egroupware https) on external nic (unless i read up and find https facing outside not as scary as it sounds and i shut out all unathenticated users...)
--matt