One feature I would love to see is automatic network updates.

Once KnoppMyth is installed there should never be a need to download and burn a new CD. Instead KnoppMyth should include a script that checks for updates on a server and should prompt the user that an update is available. The user can then select to auto update from the server either immediately or at a later scheduled time.

This could either be implemented for full releases, or even small changes to a single package, that way KnoppMyth users will always have the latest and greatest software, and with the ease of TiVo.

I'd like Knoppmyth to format the drives with XFS.

I too, have been experiencing the Nforce2 errors, and I think a lot of the people who love KnoppMyth would really appreciate adding the patches to fix the hard lockup problems with this popular MB type.

After all, if the primary purpose of KnoppMyth is to be the easy "I just put in the CD and installed and I've got a running PVR" solution that we all want, this has to be high on the list of features we'd like to see.

- that's my 2c.

yes I think they are working on something for this, but you have to realize it is a compicated problem. There are a few options. You could just disable local apic, but then there is going to be someone who has 100 devices connected to their pc and complains about the lack of interupts. you could include kernel 2.6 which has a nolapic boot option so you can boot with or without local apic just by changing a file, but then you will run into problems with the nvidia drivers and possible others. Or possibly the best solution I think I heard that 2.4.23 has the boot option, but I am not sure of this.

Actually I'm probably going to dump XFS from the kernel. The kernel that will be included w/ R5 will be patched for pre-empt! Unfortunatele problems have been report w/ pre-empt and XFS.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Hi, I have a suggestion for something I'd like to see in R5: reduction in fan noise with some thermal management features.

I am new to MythTV and KnoppMyth but have a working system that I really like a lot. However, I see now that my selection of hardware components could have been much better. My KnoppMyth PC PVR is just plain noisy. I have a PSU w/fan, a intel 845GV motherboard with 2.6 GHz Celeron CPU w/fan, and a GF4MX video card w/fan. Thats my bad but maybe there is something that could reduce this problem.

Is it possible to get some noise reduction in software via thermal management? Would options to activate ACPI, APM, lm_sensors, etc reduce the noise when the KnoppMyth PVR is not active. As far as I can tell, APM and ACPI are disabled at boot at default. Why is this?

Again, you folks are great! I love KnoppMyth! Next time, I'll get a silent PC!

THANKS!!

Andrew Lynch

Here's a relevant thread, it seems I am not original in this thought...

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive ... re_P91526/

Thanks!

I'd like to see the following feature/program added to R5: Mondo Rescue
I think the addition of feature/program C would be beneficial because: Backups are good. Once I am done tweaking my installation to my liking, it would be great to have a bootable recovery cd so I can recreate my install quickly in the case of hard drive failure.

Feature/program X can be found at(please provide a link): http://mondorescue.org/

Program X has the following dependencies and can be found(please provide a link): http://mondorescue.org/download/contribute.html (see bottom of the page).

I know Knoppix has mondo rescue built in.

Thanks!

I'd like to see a friendlier initial fvwm configuration. In addition to XTerm and MythTV, I'd like to see menus for the following:

* Mozilla (for reading KnoppMyth and MythTV docs)
* Some sort of UI-based text editor (xedit?) for editing config files
* Link to Debian documentation
* Link to KnoppMyth and MythTV docs, FAQs
* Link to the list of Debian packages that can be installed with apt-get
* Graphical admin tools for configuring Debian (are there any?)

Also, it would be great if fvwm could be configured so that the user could move and resize windows. Is there a reason for why windows are frozen in the initial location where they pop up?

This is probably the part of KnoppMyth that I ran into the most trouble with. Yeah, it's all stuff that I eventually learned by reading the Debian and fvwm docs, but it was pretty daunting to exit MythTV and see a completely blank screen!

Boris

MythBrowser could do the reading for you which will be in R5.

apt-get install nano - will satisfy number 2.

Documentation is somewhere in there, do a locate Debian or something and your destin to find something. Mythtv.org has enough documentation, just go to the website.

A list debian packages available, hmm good question I don't know where that'd be.

Graphical admin tools, well isn't Webmin or something like that included, I forget since I didn't know how to get it up and running.

well you used to be able to get a complete list of debian packages on their site, but that part is still down from the compromise.

I'd like to see the following feature/program added to R5.

There needs to be a way to configure mythbackend and mythfrontend to restart any time they crash. As it is now, if the backend crashes, the user may not know about it until it is too late. And once it has crashed, someone with some knowledge must fix the problem (i.e. dad must restart the backend).

If the frontend crashes, the user is dumped to a blank screen with a mouse cursor. Again, dad must be called upon to fix the problem.

I think that making the myth frontend and backend restart themselves would make the system more robust and more accessible to non-geeks.

I've done this once before, using the init process to keep the frontend running.

First I created the following .xinitrc and placed it in ~mythtv. startx will use the .xinitrc when it is run.



Second, I created a script run-myth-frontend that is run by root.



Finally, I modified /etc/inittab as follows to keep the frontend running. When mythfrontend or X terminates, the script, run-myth-frontend, terminates and init restarts the process.



Now my implementation obviously requires the user to configure the system to work this way, but it would be nice if the KnoppMyth scripts would detect the presences of a file or setting and operate in either kiosk mode or configuration mode.

I apoligize from the get go of this post if my suggestion has been already suggested, after 7 pages of posts my eyes and brain were a tad fried, zith that said.

I think that for customization of knoppmyth to suit personal preferences or needs a simple menu for selecting/unselecting options would be great. Also one step further of this idea is an easy way to change the installed options after the initial install. My reasoning for this is that a) knoppmyth greatly simplifies the install process and therefore creates a much larger userbase of mythtv and with this larger userbase many of them will not be linux gurus but nezbies or people who simply dont want to become linux gurus, they just will want to use a good product b) it will simply be eaiser and may save time. Just because you know the ins and outs of linux doesnt mean that you always want to use cli to do something.

ok i'm done

Thanks Everybody

KnoppMyth is a really great idea. Thanks for that.

I've a small feature request :

- To be able to choose the keyboard layout during this install process

Why? Because not everybody is American and has a QWERTY keyboard

Where? Should already be in Knoopix sources.

Cheers,
Cyrille

scyrille, did you try, at the bootup for the installation, typing knoppmyth kbd=whatever_you want to setup the kbd? It is after all, Knoppix based.