I've been playing further with Mythbuntu. Using the Mythbuntu 9.10 installation (which uses MythTV 0.22), I never managed to get the Hauppauge remote working at all. And then it seemed to me that there was a rather a lot of hard disk activity while the computer really ought to have been idle.
A quick Google search suggested this might be solved by upgrading to MythTV 0.23. This was straightforward using links at the Mythbuntu site. I also took the plunge and upgraded to the beta2 of Ubuntu while I was at it. This was straightforward, except I rendered the system unbootable by incorrectly answering a setup question relating to Grub2. Rescue was straightforward, and by running grub-install from a live Ubuntu CD, as described on this useful guide to grub 2.
Somewhere along the line I was asked what remote I was using, and the upshot is that I now have a partially functional remote. It's not there yet, but there are a variety of handy wikis out there with sample configuration files for this model of remote, so I am confident I'll be able to set up full support for it.
So, now onward and upward for more complete testing.
I've been playing further with Mythbuntu. Using the Mythbuntu 9.10 installation (which uses MythTV 0.22), I never managed to get the Hauppauge remote working at all. And then it seemed to me that there was a rather a lot of hard disk activity while the computer really ought to have been idle.
A quick Google search suggested this might be solved by upgrading to MythTV 0.23. This was straightforward using links at the Mythbuntu site. I also took the plunge and upgraded to the beta2 of Ubuntu while I was at it. This was straightforward, except I rendered the system unbootable by incorrectly answering a setup question relating to Grub2. Rescue was straightforward, and by running grub-install from a live Ubuntu CD, as described on this useful guide to grub 2.
Somewhere along the line I was asked what remote I was using, and the upshot is that I now have a partially functional remote. It's not there yet, but there are a variety of handy wikis out there with sample configuration files for this model of remote, so I am confident I'll be able to set up full support for it.
So, now onward and upward for more complete testing. 