Now that I've setup my DVB-C adapter (here), MythTV will no longer record from my PVR-150 adapter. I've switched from ivtv-kmdl to video4linux-ivtv-kmdl as a driver. However, according to /var/log/messages, both of my IVTV cards are still detected. What's going on?

First of all, I installed the hardware into my CentOS 5 machine. Then, I replaced my ivtv-kmdl package, which does not work together with DVB, with the linuxtv-dvb-apps, video4linux-kmdl and video4linux-ivtv-kmdl RPMs, all from ATrpms.net. After a reboot, the card was automatically detected. Great!

The next step was to manually scan for channels to see if it worked. Using a lot of Googling, I assembled the following command:
/usr/bin/scan -t 1 -A 2 -n /usr/share/dvb/dvb-c/nl-Casema > /root/.czap/channels.conf

For the longest time, I've been looking for a way to securely store a backup of my files off-site. I'm already using BackupPC to backup the files to another harddisk and keep a number of revisions to secure against harddisk failure. But, you never know what happens in the future. I really don't want to loose all my digital pictures, documents or e-mail in case of a fire.

Today on Slashdot I read about the new release of Enlightenment, DR16.7.1. I have used Enlightenment in the past and it looks amazing. Check the Enlightenment website for screenshots.

We have spent the past two weeks on vacation in Fuerteventura. Fuerteventura is a part of the Canarian islands. Though the islands are in the Atlantic Ocean off the westcoast of Africa, they are officialy part of Spain. We spent our two weeks on the beach and around the swimmingpool here as seen on the picture on the right. Spending two weeks away from the internet and computers is really not so bad if you're in a sunny country.

Well, my computer is finally up and running with Fedora Core 1. In order to get it working, I had to install Fedora on a different machine, boot from a custom Fedora rescue cd with the medley module and then copy the installation from the cd to the RAID partition.

Well, after lots of trying, I have gotten a bit further. I can boot the fedora installer dvd, then switch to a shell, load the necessary modules and create the device nodes using this script. Unfortunately, the driver then wants to continue installing on /dev/hdg and not on /dev/ataraid/d0. So, I temporarily remove /dev/hdg and link it to /dev/ataraid/d0 to fool the Anaconda installer. Once it figures out that it should use /dev/ataraid/d0, I move the files back before doing any partitioning. But.... Anaconda crashes on a KeyError: ataraid/d0 when I try to modify the partitioning. However, I can use fdisk to partition the disk. Now, I need to figure out how to trick the installer into using ataraid devices.

Now that I've burnt my own Fedora DVD to a disc using my new NEC ND-2500 DVD burner, I can boot from that DVD, only to find out that the RAID-0 partition I had created over the two disks, is not supported. Using the RAID-0, I can gain quite a bit of performance (90MB/s!!!) over using one disk and I can share my disk with a Windows installation... But how do I get Linux to recognize that RAID set?

This weekend, I got my new computer. It has some brand new hardware, featuring an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ on an Abit AN7 board, 1GB of RAM, 2 SATA Seagate harddisks and an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. It works great, but ofcourse I want to run Linux on this. I want to install Fedora Core 1, since Redhat and later on Fedora has always been my distribution of choice. But, it's not so easy....

As of today, I will be starting a BLog. Stories on the BLog will be posted mostly in English, since a lot of readers of these pages are foreign. The major topics will be Linux and Open Source, but I may address my personal life or social issues at times.