June 26: Big Kenny
July 23: Rhythm Devils featuring Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Keller Williams
July 30: Easy Star All-Stars
Aug. 13: JJ Grey and MOFRO
Aug. 20: The Emmitt-Nershi Band

I thought it would improve performance to do the entire upgrade like this one here. However the upgrade just made everything shitty. Soon after the upgrade I attempted to playback a nice big video with mplayer and I got a shitty choppy playback and a shitty black flickering bar towards the lower part of the playback. So, I googled for a few hours only to find a ton of others bitching about this driver and how much Intel sucks for this. After readin about all i could fucking stand about the psb driver, one of my old i810 video tips came to mind. Appending “mem=” to your kernel boot line to specify how much memory the kernel uses, Leaving some for the video system.

In your grub/menu.lst find your kernel line:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash

Add “mem=SOMETHING LESS THAN YOUR ACTUAL MEMORY”

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash mem=1000mb

Her mini 10 only has a gig of memory so I am using “mem=1000″, thats in Megabytes and there is 1024 of them in a Gig of ram so this should leave me 24MB’s for video.. if it needs it.

Wouldn’t ya know it, It worked.
Hope this stupid post helps somebody out. Please share your comments.

Log into your server and create a /usr/local/bin/mplaytv script like this:


#!/bin/bash
DISPLAY=:0.0 mplayer -fs -zoom "$1"


Make sure you make it executable.

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mplaytv

Now you can play something with the new script and the output will go to the xserver attached to the TV.
Make sure you run the mplaytv script as the user logged into the xsession on the server, or you will get xsession errors.

mplaytv Some_Video.avi

You should see some activity in your shell and mplayer controls are attached to that shell, So keyboard shortcuts also work remotely.

Linux Media, Done.
Simple ain’t it?

Todd Snider 2009-01-16 FLAC

Sam Bush Band 2009-01-16 FLAC

■ March 7: Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band (funky dance music from Asheville, N.C.)

■ March 14: The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band (alternative blues from Indiana)

■ March 21: John Brown’s Body (reggae and electronica from Cambridge, Mass.)

■ March 26: Citizen Cope (a hip-hop-influenced pop and rock act from Brooklyn, N.Y.)

■ April 4: Ryan Shaw (a soul singer from Brooklyn, N.Y.)

■ April 12: Ozomatli (a hip-hop- and funk-influenced Latin dance band from Los Angeles)

Took off like storm troopers looking for freshies and did quite well on triangle and in the lolly-gag trees. Time was running out but we ended up at the south peak chair at 3:30. A great place to end up at that time because you are far away from the base area and have two chair rides to get you home. Still..

We rode up the south peak chair and then hit ROLEX. This kicked both of our asses good. Headed for the Elkhead chair with nothing left in our legs. It appeared there was no line at all and I was looking forward to having a place to sit down. (really I was)

This is when the gaper stuff begins.

I slide up to Elkhead ready to sit down and there is a couple in the lift line ahead of me, hey I’m chill. I have to wait a few seconds for harlodt to slide up behind, so I just stand there waiting. Then harlodt arrives. We are ready to sit down, but there is an obstruction. The couple (now know as the gaper couple) is asking the lift-op how to get off the mountain and he is more than happy to take time to explain the nuances of skiing the Elkhead saddle. “You go up this chair… then you have to take a left…(and so on and so on and so on)” By this time, it is quite noticeable that several chairs have gone by. And, ah, hey!, we are back here!, waiting! The kind gaper wife offers to scoot over to let us pass. She says, “Would you like to go around? Go around.” The magic words! We say thanks and all that to be polite and scoot on up to the red line, together with the gaper couple. The lift-op with his Elvis sunglasses on and not knowing WTF is happening hollers out, “FOLLOW THIS CHAIR!”

Push……………… I go.
Push……………… haroldt goes.
Push……………… gaper guy goes .
his wife………….. left behind.

Gaper guy starts talking to us for a moment thinking we were his wife, then caught himself.
Gaper guy: “Where’s Margie?”
phrog: “She decided to ride the next chair. See.. She is just back there don’t worry (pointing).
This chair goes to the same place as that one.”

To Be Continued………?