Okay everything seems to be going fine and I'm on to the post installation procedures:

I enter the root password

I configure time and date

I cancel the ip address selection (my onboard is disabled and I have yet to install ndiswrapper)

I select i686

Mythtv-setup does not run (as per the pamphlet) and my database is restored

At this point I see a message like "all done, restarting GDM" and I'm left at the x desktop

now the pamphlet says

Steps 1-4 from where? the MythTV howto section 9.1 - 9.4?




And I thought since I saw an nvidia splash screen the nvidia drivers were already installed.

If somebody could give me a shove in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

Thanx!

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R5D1 MythTV 0.20
AMD Sempron 64 2600+
Biostar K8NHA mobo w/nForce3
Chaintech SH5200 vcard w/128 MB
Hauppauge PVR500 MCE
1 GB DDR 400
300 GB IDE Seagate HD
NEC 3550A DL DVD burner
BTC 9019URF wireless keyboard
WMP54G Linksys Wireless NIC

I've no idea which pamphlet you are reading... Those are not the instructions for doing an auto upgrade. What problem are you having exactly? ndiswrapper is already installed...

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

The Pamphlet of KnoppMyth located here

http://www.mysettopbox.tv/doc.html

I get confused at the post installation steps.

And I mis-spoke (mis-wrote?) I know ndiswrapper is installed, I meant my wireless nic driver that ndiswrapper needs.

Thanks

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R5D1 MythTV 0.20
AMD Sempron 64 2600+
Biostar K8NHA mobo w/nForce3
Chaintech SH5200 vcard w/128 MB
Hauppauge PVR500 MCE
1 GB DDR 400
300 GB IDE Seagate HD
NEC 3550A DL DVD burner
BTC 9019URF wireless keyboard
WMP54G Linksys Wireless NIC

What exactly is the problem you are having?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Well, after the system is restored and it restarts GDM (it sems all is well to this point), I'm left at X desktop. The frontend won't start and if I try to start it manually it halts with a "segmentation fault.

I'm not sure where to go now.

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R5D1 MythTV 0.20
AMD Sempron 64 2600+
Biostar K8NHA mobo w/nForce3
Chaintech SH5200 vcard w/128 MB
Hauppauge PVR500 MCE
1 GB DDR 400
300 GB IDE Seagate HD
NEC 3550A DL DVD burner
BTC 9019URF wireless keyboard
WMP54G Linksys Wireless NIC

What version did you upgrade from/to? What else has changed prior/during the upgrade? Any new hardware?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I believe that this actually refers to mythtv-setup.

BTW - Have you seen the upgrade hints posting? It includes a lot of tricks to make your upgrade experience smoother. http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10116

You are correct Sir! (In my best Ed McMahon voice)

Oh, and Cecil, thanks for moving vice deleting my post! I lost track of it when you moved it, glad I looked for it before sticking my foot in my mouth

I was confused by this because of the previous paragraph stating



I took that to mean mythtv-setup did not have to run, or ran on it's own.

However once I figured out how to launch mythtv-setup (for some reason it wouldn't launch from ctrl-alt-F1, I had to use xshell), ran steps 1-4 of mythtv-setup, configured my wireless nic using ndiswrapper, and ran mythfilldatabase, it's back up and running.

I did look at the upgrade hints posting, briefly.... very briefly... as being a n00b (my first foray into linux was the initial build of this box using R5A26) and not messing with linux since I got the box running 6 months ago, just looking at the code was confusing so I jumped in and went for it.

I did however backup my XF86Config-4 file and did use the TV testcd option at boot.

Now however I notice there is a small issue with my PVR500, AND I am upgrading from R5A26, so I'll backtrack a bit and see if I can't figure that out.

Thanks everyone, for a great product and your patience (I know it is tried severely and often!)

Time to update my sig with R5C7!

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R5D1 MythTV 0.20
AMD Sempron 64 2600+
Biostar K8NHA mobo w/nForce3
Chaintech SH5200 vcard w/128 MB
Hauppauge PVR500 MCE
1 GB DDR 400
300 GB IDE Seagate HD
NEC 3550A DL DVD burner
BTC 9019URF wireless keyboard
WMP54G Linksys Wireless NIC

Darn and that was written with nearly my best drunk monkey level of detail. (A coworker describes this as "directions that even a drunken monkey could follow" and claimed to have tested several sets of directions I've written while he was in that condition.)

For future reference and other newbies, when you see lots of detail, it means that someone bothered to write down all the steps rather than assuming you knew how to do them. Rather than being frightened you should be encouraged. These are intended to be complete enough that you can simply cut and paste the commands directly from the browser window into the shell window. A complete no brainer.

Alright, next time I won't get scared, I'll get drunk first!

Seriously, I know you put a lot of effort into that, all of you guys do, and I (and I'm sure lots of other folks) do appreciate it.

Thanks again!

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R5D1 MythTV 0.20
AMD Sempron 64 2600+
Biostar K8NHA mobo w/nForce3
Chaintech SH5200 vcard w/128 MB
Hauppauge PVR500 MCE
1 GB DDR 400
300 GB IDE Seagate HD
NEC 3550A DL DVD burner
BTC 9019URF wireless keyboard
WMP54G Linksys Wireless NIC