Tuesday 15 December 2009

Mythbuntu - BTTV Driver

The following settings woked for my PowerColor BT878 capture card:

lspci
04:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
04:00.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)

And the settings:
rmmod bttv
rmmod tuner
sudo modprobe bttv card=70 tuner=1



Wednesday 9 December 2009

Can't ping FQDN in Ubuntu

I created a local DNS zone ending in .local and experienced weird DNS behaviour; dig worked 100%

It seems the avahi-daemon interferes with the normal resolving process. It’s DNS caching borks the normal functionality

The fix:


# shut it down
sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon stop
# stop it starting at the next reboot by removing the startup links
sudo update-rc.d -f avahi-daemon remove
Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon ...
/etc/rc1.d/K86avahi-daemon
/etc/rc2.d/S50avahi-daemon
/etc/rc3.d/S50avahi-daemon
/etc/rc4.d/S50avahi-daemon
/etc/rc5.d/S50avahi-daemon