Mythtv in Ubuntu's future?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:36:13AM -0500, bstil wrote:

> I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu Warty on a desktop with a PVR-250. 
> Then I did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.
> 
> Then I added universe and multiverse to sources.list.  Then apt-get
> update.  Then apt-get install mythtv.
> 
> Then I got some confusing notices about a mythtv user and then from
> root console I ran mythtv-setup.  From that point I had the blue mythtv
> setup screen with five options... and no mouse!  I had to navigate with
> keyboard.  And more confusion and then item 4 aborted with an error
> message:
> 
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: No such file or directory
> lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
> Couldn't open Segmentation fault

Interesting.  It works fine for me (as you might expect).  Having no mouse
cursor is normal; MythTV is designed to be used on a TV, with a handheld
remote control and no mouse.

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 - mdz