i’ve been having issues w/ /dev/dsp not being available lately and it’s because nxesd keeps hanging around on my system.

$ sudo lsof | grep dsp
nxesd 11945 flipp 4w CHR 14,3 10785 /dev/dsp

yup. nxclient/nxserver use esd (the enlightenment sound daemon) to manage pushing sound w/ the remote display. i’m not sure why it’s grabbing /dev/dsp for a session where i disabled multimedia support but killing off the nxesd process fixed sound. to fix it permanently, just change your sound playback device to esd in system>preferences>sound.

only 5 more days! i haven’t updated either one of my boxes running 8.04 beta in a few days because i finally have a stable setup for the moment. i’m planning on backing everything up on the laptop and doing a clean 8.04 install after the final comes out. the ubuntu laptop testing team has a pretty comprehensive dell latitude d620 page, and it looks like suspend/hibernate are working again. sweet!

i have both my master backend and my secondary backend/frontend working for the most part. i do need to share the video directories so each box doesn’t need a local copy but i’m still trying to figure out the best way to do that.

traditionally on a single backend/frontend you would just toss your videos in /var/lib/mythtv/video , but now i need a different structure to allow for me to mount the remote video directory w/out stomping on the local video directory. i’m thinking the easiest way to do this is to create a host directories in the default video location and see what happens.
( knoppmyth nfs howto | sharing video with a remote FE | optimizing performance )

ha! it works. watching a video over the network in mythvideo. i’m going to have to monitor my network for a few days to see how much traffic is being generated, but i’m really happy with the way mythbuntu 8.04 is looking. 10 days till ubuntu 8.04 is released so it’s not long till the mythbuntu 8.10 release either.