[mythtv-users] Help with Xbox linux and mythtv

[kim gross]

chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:11:56AM -0600, kim gross wrote:
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>>>I get the unsupported error myself but x still starts. I suspect that 
>>>you upgraded from XF86 to the new Xorg drivers. AFAIK this is a known 
>>>problem as the new drivers do not support the xbox hardware yet. See if 
>>>downgrading back to the XF86 drivers fixes your problem.
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>>I hate to ask this, but how do I downgrade to the old drivers?  I have 
>>been googling for a few days now and have not figured out how to.
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>Debian no longer supports XFree86 *at all*, so you can't downgrade 
>using apt unless you find an unofficial source.
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>When I first upgraded from 0.18 to 0.19 the Myth packages required 
>a library that required Xorg, so my XBox dutifully upgraded itself 
>to the point where it wouldn't start X and I had no frontend in my 
>living room for about a month.  Eventually I reinstalled Xebian 
>1.1.4 and this time when I upgraded to 0.19 the dependencies were 
>different and now I have it running on XFree86.  Needless to say, 
>now that I have 0.19 running again I'm taking a "it ain't broke, so 
>don't fix it" approach to the XBox.  I don't intend on installing 
>0.20 until my other machines reach the point where Myth 0.19 is 
>holding me back from installing some other critical package.  To 
>prevent accidental breakage I've marked 0.19 as "hold" so that it 
>will block any other incompatible automatic upgrades.
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>Do you still have your original install disk?  If so then starting 
>over is the easiest (if not only) way to downgrade successfully.
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I got it working.  To be honest I have no idea what I did, but last 
night I rebooted the box again to get ready to reload and it came up and 
is working great.

Kim