I ‘borrowed’ a suspect AGP graphics card from work to see if it would make a difference to my MythTV setup - I quickly dropped it in and ran KnoppMyth installer - and yes it has managed to produce almost jump-free playback. However, MythTV still isn’t quite … happy with this install method - time for some tinkering I think.

This time I download Ubuntu 6.1.10 Edgy Eft on which it’s apparently quite easy to install MythTV. It’s not without hiccups though - I’ve a PVR-250 instead of a Nova-T - I miss the vital step of apt-get update after modifying /etc/apr/sources.list so it can’t find mythtv to install.

Next, when I run mythtv-setup it can’t see my tuner card - a bit of investigating and I uncover I need to install ivtv which I’m working through now.

I now realise why the graphics card wasn’t being used - it doesn’t like booting. I also now realise that a Radeon 9700 is not the best for this anyway - turns out ATi cards don’t play well with Linux.

Wouldn’t it be easier to get a Sky+ box?