“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem. Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes. We know when and where they start. We know what drives them. We know what mitigates their destructive power. And anyone who has studied global warming can tell you what makes them worse. The only people who still call hurricanes “acts of God” are the people who write insurance forms.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson : The Perimeter of Ignorance
A good read.
Tags: Stupid People
My root filesystem died on my MythTV server while I was sick last week. After spending a good bit of time trying to recover the data, I lost my database and mythtv build.
Document I followed to get MythTV Installed and ivtv modules working using this document. This document has the package repository used: http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.2.
This command worked to get the ivtv driver to load:
sudo rpm -Uhv http://jarpack.com/suse/noarch/ivtv-firmware-0.1-1.noarch.rpm
ivtv-fb loaded without issues. It took a bit of googling to find a ivtv driver for xorg. Here it is:
http://www.hellion.org.uk/ivtv/debian/ivtvdev_drv.so~i386
LIRC was the next issue. Here is a bug with LIRC in SuSE 10.2 that prevents /dev/lirc and /dev/lirc0 from being created.
I compiled up the source and was able to copy just the kernel module to fix it.
cp drivers/lirc_i2c/lirc_i2c.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-default/updates/lirc_i2c