Ok, so I have started work on my stat cheat sheet in LaTeX. I’ll put up all the files as they are made here:
If anyone has anything to add, just send me the changes and I’ll add it.
The setup of MythTV continues. Everything is working quite well, now I’m just tweaking. I turned down the recording quality a bit, since the xbox can’t quite keep up with the default high quality. It ends up looking *better* on the tv, since there is no more tearing. The picture has a couple more mpeg artifacts, but I think that’s a good tradeoff.
The next thing was to get the xbox remote working properly. The default version of the usb-xboxir kernel module is buggy. There is a double input problem when you press a button sometimes. There is a patch, xboxir-autorepeat.patch to fix that though. It works great. Here is what I ran in GentooX to apply this patch (originally figured it out from here) :
cd /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/ wget http://www.delgul.demon.nl/xbox/xboxir-autorepeat.patch patch < xboxir-autorepeat.patch
Then, I edited usb-xboxir.h with my own mappings for the remote control. My patch file can be found here. It can be applied in the same manner as the first patch:
cd /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/ wget http://kje.ca/docs/xboxir-mythtvkeymap.patch patch < xboxir-autorepeat.patch
Now, I'm fairly sure that I didn't make the patch file in a great way, but it worked. Let me know a better way, and I'll update it. Anyways, I then built the module, copied it over, and loaded it:
cd /usr/src/linux make modules cp /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/usb-xboxir.o /lib/modules/2.4.22-xbox/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-xboxir.o (that above line could be make modules_install, but I wanted to make sure I only installed the new usb-xboxir.o modules and nothing else) rmmod usb-xboxir modprobe usb-xboxir
That's it! I actually did this all with mythfrontend running, and started using my xbox remote right away. It works great!
It only took $200 and a “couple” (hahahaha) hours of free time to set up, but it’s now working. I have a working MythTV setup in my humble Scarberia abode.
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So after toiling away with my new soldering gun, and getting the hang of it some more, I got the female usb 1.1 ports soldered to my xbox controller! I got it all back together, hooked up my keyboard and mouse, a little compile-y compile-y, and bam, I’m on MSN Messenger and posting to my blog from linux on the xbox!
Quite tired now. Going to bed, 2 more sleeps until Montreal…yay!
I think pubnight is going to be a no go.
I LOVE TAMRA BAXTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT A CUTIE PIE!!!