journaling: enabled

I’ve pretty much gotten my mythtv system rebuilt. I had to tear it apart because the P2-233 didn’t have the ponies to do what I want. My future in-laws were gracious enough to donate their P3-733 to me for parts since it was flaking out on them. I did a motherboard transplant and rebuilt the mythtv box using Fedora Core 2. The drivers for the PVR-350 are in a bit of flux, so I was going to wait for a complete “stable” release of those, but I managed to get it working by downloading a pre-compiled X driver that I found a link in a mythtv-users message. So I got tv recording playback working last night. This morning I enjoyed watching 3 hrs worth of tv in two hours (courtesy of fast-fowarding through commercials). I might make some quality tweaks at some point, but first I’d like to figure out how to get the interface “window” to show completely on the tv screen. Right now the upper and left edges are cut off. This evening I discovered something very interesting. I have the myth box connected to my stereo (Kenwood VR-407), using two different inputs. I have the PVR-350 (vid/tuner card) connected to VIDEO1, with S-Video and stereo RCA audio. I have the audio output of the motherboard connected to MD/TAPE. I assumed that I would have to live with having the visual interface for MythMusic on VIDEO1 and switch to MD/TAPE when I wanted to hear it (and lose the visual). Much to my surprise, I’m currently listening to MD/TAPE but seeing the video for VIDEO1. I’ll have to do more experimenting to see if this is an anomaly or if it will always work this nicely.
Right now I’m listening to Neil Diamond with my dad and waiting for liz4jc4ever, her mother and my mother to return from shopping. Hopefully in the not too distant future, we’ll have yummy lasagna to eat.