Aim :

• Enable a lightly used Linux machine to additionally host a MythTV video card.

Major Issues :

• Upgrade to 2.6.22 breaks *everything* :
• ivtv
• ivtv-fb
• ivtv-xdriver
• ivtvfb-ctl (now gone)
• Want to have two independent displays (two simultaneous X servers running)
• Complex
  /etc/X11/xorg.conf
• Need to use
  evdev

  to have dual keyboards

• Toy with
  /etc/gdm/custom.conf

  (not necessary, hardly working)

• Added a Belkin wireless keyboard (from woot.com)
• Set up special keys for MythTV
• Control cable box via IR transmitter

Each of these will be addressed in separate postings.

NB: This MythTV experience is certainly not an advertisement for building a DIY PVR. Lots of the documentation, Wiki entries, and forum advice is badly out-of-date. Oh well.