I actually ditched my pctv pro card (really sucked under *nix), and bought a pvr-500 dual tuner. Kept the pctv pro remote and serial ir though, and all three work under MythTv (specifically...

Philip,
I've never used a Winfast card, but looking at this image (http://www.pcpartscollection.com/leadtvtuncar.html), it appears you have to run a line out from the TV Card (audio out, one of...

Alright. The issue was hardware related. I believe that the riser card was not getting enough juice and spliced in longer wires so that I could plug in both of the pci-slot connections and since I...

Follow up:

I sniffed on both the problembox and the backupbox and started pings from the problembox to the backupbox. On the problembox I can see arp requests going out for whohas the backupbox...

I have a linux box (2.6.9 kernel). problembox has 2 nics, A and B, with A's IP = 192.168.1.2 and B's IP = 10.1.1.1. I want 192.168.1.2 to be the default (for things such downloads via apt-get and...

I have munin installed and working but I would like it to report on my web server listening on 443. For any of the apache_ files (accesses, volume, etc) I have it configured as the following to try...

Linux Cookbook by Carla Schroder. There is a whole chapter on Samba that besides showing you how to set it up, goes into a little of the background. Nicecentrals right though, samba.org and its...

I have set up a wireless AP to authenticate through freeradius using certificates. The only problem is the connection keeps dropping then starts up, authenticates, then drops again only to repeat. ...

problem was resolved by adding
use sendfile = no
large readwrite = no
max xmit = 16644

to smb.conf

and taking out the smbfs fstab entries and writing a init.d script with entries such as
...

following nicecentrals advice, would this script work? (Not too sure about the du compare in the if statement).

#! /bin/sh

PATH=/path/to/directory

if [du -s $PATH > 0]

then

from command line

route print (this will print out your current routes so you should see your current gateway)

route -p CHANGE <destination IP> MASK <subnet mask> <GW IP> METRIC <metric> IF...

What is your soundcard and how do you have PCTV plugged into the soundcard (via line in)?

Running Knoppix 3.7. Trying to use mencoders -vf pp (post processing filter) however when I run mencoder -vf help, I don't have pp as an option (spp is available though). Would like to use the...

USB 2.0 drives. I've seen others having the same issue with samba and the 2.6.x kernel. It is only a problem linux to linux, no issues when copying large (>2GB) files from XP.

I using Knoppix 3.7 on two machines, one with kernel 2.4.27 and the other with 2.6.9. I running freevo on the 2.6.9 box and samba (latest debian version, 3.0.x I think) on the 2.4.27 one. The samba...

Well yes and no to freevo working. Still trying to figure out the right init scripts to use with tv_grab. I have one that runs but when the login screen appears, it does some weird overlay. I'm...

Thanks for the reply TKS. I found the problem to be in my /etc/modules-2.6.9 and /etc/modules. It was loading the oss driver via82cxxx_audio. I commented out the line and added in the snd-via82xx,...

Sorry to jump posts here, but I'm having a similar problem. In a console I can run alsaconf and it will detect my via82xx and load it (seems to take out my TV tuner though as I have to re-configure...