Hi Owen, In the end I completely reinstalled Mythbuntu. I then checked out the Ubuntu Mythbuntu forum (I'd checked out the Mythbuntu site previously) and was lucky to get immediate responses to some questions over a couple of days - working through a few issues.
The machine is running very well now. > >> I have sound, but not through the telly (I can >> plug-in headphones to the on-board sound and it >> works). I'm assuming I can plug in a cable to the >> on-board output and see if that works by plugging >> it into the telly's audio input. > > How are you plugging it into the telly now? > If it is a composite cable (yellow) then you will also need to use the > other two (black and red) for audio. > This will probably require a '3.5mm Stereo to 2xRCA' cable to get from > the headphone port to the tv audio in. Yes, exactly. I bought a 3.5mm jack to 2 RCA jack cable and that works fine. > > Look into setting a modeline that conforms to the PAL spec and you should be > ok. > If that doesn't mean anything to you (yet), then either ask more or it > at least gives you some keywords to search with. Channel 2 is the only channel where the image is not as good as I'd like. I'll have to check this out more along the lines you're suggesting. >> 3. The desktop image is slightly drawn to the >> left. I have an older analogue telly, so there are >> no 'display' controls as on some LCD telly's and >> PC monitors. I solved this by changing the resolution to 1024x768 and using the nVidia config settings to zoom the screen. Works extremely well. Regarding cost: I was given a BlueRay players/DVD burner by a mate (brand new but he couldn't get it to work with the Windows Media Centre he was building. He also gave me a Hauppauge PVR-150 because in the end he wanted a low-profile dual tuner. (Nice to have friends like this). I already had a P4 mobo with a 3Ghz chip, 160G HDD and 500G HDD left over from another upgrade, so the total cost (new) to me has been: a Seasonic S12II 430W PSU a Zalman CNPS7700 CPU fan and heat sink another Hauppauge PVR-150 tuner Plus I bought a Shintaro wireless keyboard with inbuilt marble mouse control. I didn't like the idea of having to individually select each letter when using a remote control when I was naming each of the recordings I was making. For anyone who is interested, I found this site very useful for information about PSUs and CPU cooling: http://www.silentpcreview.com Regards, Patrick -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
