[mythtv-users] Jarod's Guide / atRPMs general questions
David Rees
drees at greenhydrant.com
Fri Dec 31 10:05:27 UTC 2004
Dan wolf wrote, On 12/30/2004 2:33 PM:
> As far as security goes, I dont think you need to worry about that.
> With Linux behind a router/firewall you are almost invincible.
Are you kidding? That's horrible advice to give.
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 00:50:16 -0500, Harry Orenstein <holists at v92net.com> wrote:
>>
>>1. After my initial install using Jarod's Guide for FC3 I changed atRPMs in
>>apt from stable to testing. This upgraded my ivtv driver from 100zz to
>>0.2.0rc3a. Under 100zz I didn't seem to get any errors in /proc/interrupts.
>>Now I get about 2% errors for the ivtv interrupts. This apparently doesn't
>>affect the quality of my captures, but it is puzzling. Anyone else have this
>>problem? Is it any cause for concern?
Not sure, but I do see a good number of ERRORs on my setup as well (FC3
with ivtv-0.2.0rc3a). Recordings are working very well except if large
amounts of IO occur while recording at which point I get messages like this:
ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #0 Stealing a Buffer, 256 currently allocated
When this happens a recording will continue to record OK, but for some
reason myth will think that the recording is extremely long, for
example, 8 hours long instead of 1. This will make doing things like
skipping forward and backward work strangely.
>>2. How often should I do an apt-get upgrade? It seems like I could do at
>>least 10's of MBs per week in upgrades if I wanted to stay absolutely
>>up-to-date. As far as security updates this would seem to make sense. I
>>don't know if it makes sense in general to do so much updating if my system
>>is stable and doing what I want it to. Any opinions? One update which I
>>would like to make is avidemux2 since the atRPMs version (2.0.28) seems to
>>have some problem that the dag version (2.0.34test2) doesn't, but I would
>>have to uninstall avidemux2 to make the update unless I do a complete apt-get
>>upgrade.
I suggest that you write a cron script to email you what packages are
available to upgrade on a nightly basis. Then you will know what
updated packages are available and you can update as necessary.
-Dave
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