My MythTV systems root disk crashed so I need to reinstall it. I will keep my progress posted in this blog.
The Backend hardware:
- IBM Desktop
- PIII 800Mhz
- 512 Mb memory
- 120 Gb disk
- Hauppauge PVR-350
The frontend hardware is an old Xbox, with XBMC.
I downloaded Mythbuntu and installed it on the MythTV backend system.
During boot my TV card was detected and the firmware was loaded, last time this took several nights to understand.
dmesg gives:
--snipp--
[ 18.764273] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 19.191631] ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.0
[ 19.191999] ivtv0: Initializing card #0
[ 19.192060] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23415 based)
[ 19.245036] ivtv 0000:01:0d.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 19.245073] ivtv 0000:01:0d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[ 19.245098] ivtv 0000:01:0d.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 19.299891] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 48134, rev J347, serial# 2756181
[ 19.299905] tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is LG TP18PSB01D (idx 47, type 28)
[ 19.299915] tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) (eeprom 0x04)
[ 19.299925] tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is MSP4418 (idx 25)
[ 19.299935] tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19)
[ 19.299944] tveeprom 0-0050: has radio, has IR receiver, has no IR transmitter
[ 19.299954] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350
--snip--
[ 21.864260] saa7127 0-0044: saa7127 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[ 21.888601] msp3400 0-0040: MSP4418G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[ 21.888614] msp3400 0-0040: msp3400 supports nicam and radio, mode is autodetect and autoselect
[ 21.898458] tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[ 22.203952] tuner-simple 0-0061: creating new instance
[ 22.203968] tuner-simple 0-0061: type set to 28 (LG PAL_BG+FM (TPI8PSB01D))
[ 22.217306] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
[ 22.217591] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
[ 22.217780] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
[ 22.217962] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
[ 22.218140] ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
[ 22.218319] ivtv0: Registered device video16 for decoder MPG (1024 kB)
[ 22.218489] ivtv0: Registered device vbi8 for decoder VBI (64 kB)
[ 22.218661] ivtv0: Registered device vbi16 for decoder VOUT
[ 22.218875] ivtv0: Registered device video48 for decoder YUV (1024 kB)
[ 22.218886] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350
[ 22.220588] ivtv: End initialization
--snipp--
[ 46.100093] firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
[ 46.423446] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
[ 46.423590] firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw
[ 46.567632] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
[ 46.764454] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
[ 46.764597] ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
[ 46.831434] firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg
[ 46.939513] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg firmware (155648 bytes)
The next step is to configure my newly installed system.
The new features include:
Support for 64bit OS
op5 Monitor 4.1 will support the 64bit versions of RedHat and CentOS.
New improved performance graphs
The new feature provides automatic graphing for all graphable performance data (based on pnp4Nagios). This means that you will get graphs for most of your hosts and services with no effort.
Smarter Navigation
Op5 have improved the navigation by making the integration between the op5 Monitor gui and the configure tool tighter. Now op5 provide that by adding an icon next to each host and service that directs you to the configure page for that host or service, making the navigation easier and faster.
Brushing up the gui
Op5 have continued working with polishing the user interface. In the 4.1 release op5 have worked on the details making the user experience “smoother” with new icons and styles.
Buq squashing
Found bugs have been squashed, please see change log for more information.
Installation and Upgrade Notes
Op5 recommend users to upgrade from op5 Monitor 4.0.
Try op5 Monitor 4.1
You can download the software to try the new version.
Documentation
For upgrading and installing version 4.1 of op5 Monitor please see the manual.
Support
If you encounter any problems or have questions please don’t hesitate to contact op5 support:
Phone: +46 31 774 09 24
Mail: support@op5.com
Web: http://www.op5.com/support/
The most critical system in my home crashed today. The root disk of my MythTV system give me strange sounds and the BIOS does not detect that the harddrive is connected.
I have a modern laptop with 4Gb memory so in theory I should gain from running 64 bit Linux.
I installed Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop x86_64 and had som problems with:
- Java based webpages
- Flash
I spend several hours with google and tested several versions av java and flash plugins. I managed to get flash running but it was incredible unstable and java never worked. Both were installed as 32 bit applications.
I reinstalled and used Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop i386 instead and went to a flash page and installed acrobat flash player plugin from the suggestions that poped up and the same with java. It worked perfectly well.
We run WebEx as a conference application at op5 and they say that any day they will have a Linux 32 bit client, so that is another reason to use 32 bit Linux. Otherwise I have to install a virtual windows just for one application.
This really show why interoperability is important and why open standards should be used. As far as I understand Java is GPLd these days so why a 64 bit version does not exist is something I do not understand or if it exist why did it install a 32 bit version? Why does not Acrobat release their flashplayer as opensource?
Well, now I’m stucked with using only 3.6 Gb of memory but the application works.
Peter Andersson is one of the most common names in Sweden, so if you want to track the correct Peter Andersson it can be hard.
Today I got the following email:
Dear Peter,
I am writing on behalf of the German publishing house, VDM Dr. Müller. In
the course of an Internet research I came across a link to your thesis on
"Charge Transport Modulation and Optical Absorption Switching in Organic
Electronic Devices".
As we are planning publications in this subject area, I would like to get
in touch with you and I am wondering if you may be interested in publishing
your work.
Your reply including an e-mail address to which I can send an e-mail with
further information in an attachment will be greatly appreciated.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Margit Schmöltz
Acquisition Editor
VDM Publishing House Ltd.
17, Meldrum Str. | Beau-Bassin | Mauritius
Tel / Fax: +230 454-9984
m.schmoeltz@vdm-publishing-house.com | www.vdmpublishing-house.com
Business Registration No.: C07072290
Board of Directors: Katalin Bontenakels, Benoit Novel
In cooperation with
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller AG & Co. KG (www.vdm-verlag.de)
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG (www.lap-publishing.com)
Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften AG & Co. KG
(www.svh-verlag.de)
After some googling I found this thesis:
http://www.ep.liu.se/smash/record.jsf?searchId=1&pid=diva2:17013
It has been written by Peter Andersson and is far more advanced then may knowledge in semiconductors.
I answered the mail and told Margit that I was the wrong Peter Andersson and wished her good luck in the search for the correct one.
If you are bored, read my thesis, Web based management. Interesting that I’m still in working with systems- and network management.
To get output to an LCD display 1-wire can be used. This article will describe how to that and include an example to get status from Nagios or op5 Monitor on the display.
I use it to get a quick overview how my DataCenter is doing. When the LCD display is flashing something has either WARNING or CRITICAL status.
Read the rest of this entry »
A friend of mine did send me a desperate email, explaining that her 1½ year old son in less then a second managed to tilt her windows desktop to the right on her work laptop. After a simple google search I stumbled into the following link:
http://internetducttape.com/2006/08/01/stupid-windows-features-monitor-display-turns-sideways-or-upside-down/
The solution was simple after finding this link but who will use feature like this? and why is it turned on by default?
If you are the lucky owner of a PlayStation Portable, Congratulations.
Unfortunatly Sony has created a broken machine. It cannot play videos in full resolution with the builtin player, if you do not buy extremely expensive UMD discs.
One way of playing full resolution movies is using the PMP Mod player: http://jonny.leffe.dnsalias.com/
For a former Novell employee it is sad to look at the official Brainshare webpage. In my opinion Brainshare is a very good conference with a lot of technical interesting seminars. I have attended two of the Brainshare conferences, one in Salt Lake City and one in Barcelona.
Anyone producing documents should try LaTeX. It creates documents with a professional look and it forces the author to focus on the content instead of the look.
A very good guide is Tobi Oetikers “The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2ε“, btw the same guy that has created RRDtools.
Of course my CV is written in LaTeX and a small thesis I did when I studied Computer Security during my paternity leave.
