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.

i’ve moved away from deskbar to gnome-do as my primary launcher.

gnome-do [plugins] there’s a few plugins available that most ubunut/linux launchers already have, but the interface is the solid selling point gnome-do. i also haven’t had any issues with it, unlike deskbar which will randomly lock up and require a reload.

there are even plugins for gmail contacts and google calendar, but they look like they might be bleeding edge. i’ll have to look into the google api plugins to see how to get them installed/working, but any of the other plugins i tried are installed and working.

one of the current quirks i have with my latitude d620 and ubuntu is when i either dock or undock i have to restart X11 in order to fix the second display (or remove it). yeah, kinda annoying… i should definantly take a closer look at xrandr to dynamically add or remove displays. [ here ]

update: apparently you have to use twinview vs xinerama…. booo.