Mythtv in Ubuntu's future?

[Erik Bågfors]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:46:03 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 

My mythtv box is running ubuntu and works just fine.  Well.. mythtv is
somewhat unstable so it crashes now and then, but never when watching
something.

/Erik