Finally got arround to upgrading the mythtv box. Less RAM being used is good – it’s only got 512MB and some of the recordings were getting pretty fragmented due to having to flush things to disk a bit too often. Hopefully things will be a bit better now.

Annoying things were:

• Having to reboot into the old kernel to get the wireless driver to download the new kernel source package
• having to again reboot to get gcc-3.4 to build the rt2570 module with the gcc-3.4 compiled kernel
• rebuilding lirc again (but that’s easy)
• still having to manually load the sound card driver.
• no fancy boot screen (at least on my lilo setup)
• no automagic convert to grub now that it seems to work with XFS

But a lot less painful than previous big upgrades. The debian way between releases is so nice it’s not funny.

Things left to do:

• rebuild mythtv with proper lirc support so i can stop using irxevent and get lirc going with an auto launching xine/mplayer and use the box properly as a DVD player too. (this is not actually related to the ubuntu upgrade, it’s just a thing i’ve wanted to do for a while – and it’s my own fault i didn’t do it right in the first place)
• upgrade from mysql 4.0 to 5.0 (hey, maybe 5.1 ndb dd just to really be eating our own dogfood :) – again, not related to the ubuntu upgrade.

I’ve also set it up to tape the tennis, although at a low priority so my lovely flatmate doesn’t get annoyed if she misses her shows :)

Oh how I need more tuner cards.

Thanks goes to jdub for quickly asking what the upgrade issue was. No thanks goes to me for making my things left to do list look like it was related to the upgrade.