[mythtv-users] Suggestions for a stable backend

[Thomas Mashos]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:40 AM, HP-mini <blm-ubunet at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 08:54 -0800, EJS wrote:
>> On 1/03/14 03:42, warp me wrote:
>> > BTW: may You little more elaborate about this "special version of
>> the
>> > motherboard bios". How You find it, what is solves, who prepare it,
>> etc...
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions guys!
>>
>>
>> Yes.  I think the bios/second tuner is the likely culprit. It was a
>> while ago when I first installed it so I don't remember exactly what
>> happened, but I think that the system was pretty stable with just one
>> tuner. When I tried to install the second one, the os would not
>> recognize it. Eventually I found this posting on a gigabyte message
>> board
>> http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,6608.msg52623.html#msg52623 about a custom bios that they had produced for a customer that added compatibility for PCI-E 2.1 cards. (I don't remember why I this would have only affected the second card.) In any case, the bios wasn't released publicly but someone uploaded to the forum; so I gave it a try and it worked. (Well, except for the stability problems.)
>>
>>
>> I'll try upgrading the os/myth versions to cover my bases, but Im not
>> optimistic.  If that doesn't help, I'll pull the card and see if
>> things stabilize.  If it does, which is more likely, I think it will
>> be a choice of either replacing the motherboard or the tuner cards. It
>> sounds like the rest of the system (e.g. cpu/ram) has enough beef for
>> what I am trying to do.
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions on moving to 13.04 vs 14.04? I like being on an LTS
>> release, but 14.04 is pretty new.  I'd hate to introduce a set of new
>> problems.
>
> You should be using 12.04-LTS then...
>
> AIUI
> 14.04 is not released until April..& the LTS versions have typically
> followed about 1-2 months later..
> There will be an direct upgrade paths for:
> - 12.04(.03)LTS
> - 13.10
>
>
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Just a quick clarification. 14.04 is an LTS release. The point
releases that start a few months later are just fixes builds of 14.04.
It is not recommended to run 14.04 now (unless you are trying to find
bugs). The recommended version from the Mythbuntu team is 12.04 (and
will switch to 14.04 in April).

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos