Installing Mythbuntu 14.04.1 on my new Haswell i7 / Intel DH87RL box proved impossible due to an annoying audio bug that prevented audio out over HDMI. For this reason I eventually opted to use Ubuntu 14.10 instead of Mythbuntu. Read the installation notes here.
This guide is by no means complete!
For the sake of completness here are my notes for Mythbuntu 14.04.1 with the things that worked.
Individual Installation Steps:
Digital Devices Cine CT V6 DVB-C Card
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yavdr/main
sudo aptitude install dddvb-dkms
Running MythTV dual headed
As before I run MythTV on my TV set in the living room and have a monitor connected in the Office. Mythfrontend should automatically launch on the TV screen. The monitor is used to display the Linux Desktop.
The Nvidia control panel of the proprietary driver made this very easy. I was in for some fiddling with the Intel graphics. It turns out that this was much easier than I thought. On a
sudo xrandr --output HDMI1 --auto --output HDMI3 --auto --right-of HDMI1
Where HDMI1 is the DVI connector on the DH87RL board and HDMI3 is the HDMI port. HDMI2 would be the display port connector.
This solution is only temporary and lost on relaunch of X. To make it permanent the configuration needs to be written to Xorg.conf. I did not complete the installation to this point as an audio bug prevented me from using Mythbuntu.
Video acceleration VAAPI
Either go the route of installing the standard drivers:
sudo aptitude install libva1 i965-va-driver libva-intel-vaapi-driver vainfo
See here for more info: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VAAPI#Configure_MythTV_for_VAAPI
Or Use the
Intel Graphics Installer
The Intel Graphics Installer will keep your system up to date with the latest drivers.
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads
Run the following to install:
sudo aptitude install libc6 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libpackagekit-glib2-16 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libsoup2.4-1 ttf-ancient-fonts aptdaemon libproxy1-plugin-webkit wget --no-check-certificate https://download.01.org/gfx/RPM-GPG-KEY-ilg -O - | sudo apt-key add - wget --no-check-certificate https://download.01.org/gfx/RPM-GPG-KEY-ilg-2 -O - | sudo apt-key add - sudo dpkg -I /home/tv/Downloads/intel-linux-graphics-installer_1.0.7-0intel1_amd64.deb
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0{a} libpackagekit-glib2-16 libproxy1-plugin-webkit python3-aptdaemon.pkcompat{a}
ttf-ancient-fonts
Running the installer installed the following:
Added:
build-essential:amd64 (11.6ubuntu6)
debhelper:all (9.20131227ubuntu1)
dh-apparmor:all (2.8.95~2430-0ubuntu5.1)
dpkg-dev:all (1.17.5ubuntu5.3)
g++-4.8:amd64 (4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
g++:amd64 (4:4.8.2-1ubuntu6)
i915-3.16-3.13-dkms:all (1)
intel-gpu-tools:amd64 (1.8-1)
libalgorithm-diff-perl:all (1.19.02-3)
libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl:amd64 (0.04-2build4)
libalgorithm-merge-perl:all (0.08-2)
libgles1-mesa:amd64 (10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
libgles2-mesa:amd64 (10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
libllvm3.5:amd64 (1:3.5~svn201651-1ubuntu1)
libmail-sendmail-perl:all (0.79.16-1)
libosmesa6:amd64 (10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
libstdc++-4.8-dev:amd64 (4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
libsys-hostname-long-perl:all (1.4-3)
libva-egl1:amd64 (1.4.0-0intel1)
libva-tpi1:amd64 (1.4.0-0intel1)
po-debconf:all (1.0.16+nmu2ubuntu1)
va-driver-all:amd64 (1.4.0-0intel1)
vdpau-va-driver:amd64 (0.7.3-2ubuntu1.2)
Upgraded:
i965-va-driver:amd64 (from 1.3.0-1ubuntu1 to 1.4.0-0intel1)
libegl1-mesa-drivers:amd64 (from 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.2 to 10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
libegl1-mesa:amd64 (from 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.2 to 10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
libgbm1:amd64 (from 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.2 to 10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 (from 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.2 to 10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 (from 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.2 to 10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
libglapi-mesa:amd64 (from 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.2 to 10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
libopenvg1-mesa:amd64 (from 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.2 to 10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
libva-drm1:amd64 (from 1.3.0-2 to 1.4.0-0intel1)
libva-glx1:amd64 (from 1.3.0-2 to 1.4.0-0intel1)
libva-wayland1:amd64 (from 1.3.0-2 to 1.4.0-0intel1)
libva-x11-1:amd64 (from 1.3.0-2 to 1.4.0-0intel1)
libva1:amd64 (from 1.3.0-2 to 1.4.0-0intel1)
libwayland-egl1-mesa:amd64 (from 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.2 to 10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
libxatracker2:amd64 (from 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.2 to 10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
vainfo:amd64 (from 1.3.0-2 to 1.4.0-0intel1)
xserver-xorg-video-intel:amd64 (from 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1.3 to 2:2.99.911-0intel1)
Downgraded:
libdrm-intel1:amd64 (from 2.4.56-1~ubuntu1 to 2.4.56-1)
libdrm-nouveau2:amd64 (from 2.4.56-1~ubuntu1 to 2.4.56-1)
libdrm-radeon1:amd64 (from 2.4.56-1~ubuntu1 to 2.4.56-1)
libdrm2:amd64 (from 2.4.56-1~ubuntu1 to 2.4.56-1)
Audio
I only get very jaggy audio out over the hdmi connection to my TV. I’ll have to check whether this is due to the cable, TV or the output itself. Interestingly the audio works fine on the displayport out connected to the monitor.
To easily select audio devices and output formats use the pulse audio volume control.
sudo aptitude install pavucontrol
List all audio devices with
aplay -L
Test audio with the following
cat /dev/urandom | aplay
cat /dev/urandom | aplay -D hw:0,3 ## Where 0,3 is your hardware's coordinates
There may be a possibility to upgrade the sound stack:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/UpgradingAlsa/DKMS
Unfortunately I found out that Mythbuntu 14.04.1 is plagued by an annoying bug that prevents audio over HDMI. The are reports that upgrading the sound subsystem solves this issue but I decided not doing this and using Ubuntu 14.10 instead.