Advanced Theory

So I got a new Logitech DiNovo Mini keyboard for my birthday (which was awesome). Unfortunately I'm starting to push the limit of what Feisty Fawn supports. My nVidia driver has been acting buggy, I never quite got LIRC working how I'd like and now I understand the DiNovo keyboard is supported by Intrepid Ibex out of the box.

Nothing is ever as easy as advertised. Right off the bat, my nVidia drivers wouldn't load and complained that my xorg.conf was invalid. Well, it wasn't. It was just... special. But I was able to find a solution that involved deleting my xorg.conf, running dpkg-reconfigure and manually getting the files I needed. Now it's up and working again on my test LCD at least. I can't image my custom modelines will give it much trouble when I switch back to my Panasonic TV.

Then I had to fiddle with my keyboard for a little bit. Although the dongle claims it's Bluetooth 2.0, it doesn't show up as a Bluetooth device. After scratching my head on this one for a while I found out that the dongle works fine, but the USB port I was plugging into wasn't! Time to tape over that sucker so that doesn't happen again. The keyboard is now working well enough, even though the dongle never showed up as a Bluetooth receiver.

Finally, I had to muck around with the network. Since it's getting late I took the KISS approach and just disabled my second NIC in the BIOS. Rebooted and... Working!

Now I'll have to figure out why my MythTv Frontend isn't filling the screen and I'll be golden.

UPDATE: Found out I just had set the dimensions incorrectly for the resolution I was using. Now I'm back to adding new features, I think iPod transcoding is next on the to-do list.