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.

i was a little bummed to find out that you couldn’t just update between the mythbuntu alphas… i finally got around to tossing the 8.04 beta on my mythtv frontend and firewire input/capture WORKS! i also moved the pvr500 into the t105 and got that working. the only issue i’m having right now is figuring out how to get the primary backend and secondary backend to play nicely.

i also figured out how to get nxclient to work in mythbuntu. i never did figure out how to get xfce to start properly (it wouldn’t start in a window and it would render xfce over my current window manager) so i cheated and just installed ‘ubuntu-desktop’. not gnome, or gnome-desktop…. heh, yeah i’m slow.

in 78 minutes i will have 600gb of raid 5 disk space. perhaps cooler than doing this in less that 5 commands is the fact that i was doing it remotely on the t105. dynamic dns is a good thing and since nxclient just uses ssh traffic i didn’t have to port forward more than one