[mythtv] Problem with RH8 and mythtv

[Jeremy Oddo]

I'm not guru by any stretch of the imagination, but I can tell you about
my troubles....

I had a bear of a time getting everything to compile under RH8 although
several people have had success.  I switched to Mandrake9 and it shaved
off a huge amount of time and headaches.  I *love* RH for business, but
you can tell that (until recently) RedHat hasn't focused much on the
desktop/multimedia setups.  If you want to get it up and running quickly,
I'd get debian or mandrake (no flame wars please!).

Once switching to Mandrake, I still have that "myth hanging" problem. 
Isaac had to do all but hit me over the head to convince me that it was my
[insert long string of cuss words here] onboard sound.  I must have spent
15 hours on that damn problem.  After gettings a SoundBlaster, I had it up
and running in an hour or so (I could have done it faster if I wasn't half
asleep at the time!).

...as I was told...save yourself some time and spend $25 on a decent
soundcard that *will* work for sure :)



> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to mythtv. I downloaded all the sources (and all the
> pre-requisites etc...) and finally got everything compiled. I tested
> with xawtv and zapping, and they both work fine. The setup of mythtv
> worked (even though i got the "Interal Server Error" message a couple of
> times while downloading the listings) but once i tried running mythtv,
> it would just sit there. So i read over the list, and i see that other
> people have had a similar problem. here's the output that i get:
>
> root@proteus>mythtv
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Television
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite1
> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> strange error flushing buffer...
>
>
> nothing happens after this point, and hit ctrl-c to exit.
>
> I saw Issac's post suggesting it may be a bug in ALSA rc5, so i got the
> rpms from freshrpm ( rc6.1 ) and got the drivers installed, but i still
> get the same error after that. Has anybody been able to get around this
> problem? Here is my sistem config:
>
> - Duron 1.3 GHz - 512 MB RAM
> - 18 GB Maxtor 91827U4
> - ATI Radeon 7000
> - Redhat 8.0 ( Kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0 )
> - Gnome
> - ATI TV Wonder EV
> - Sis7012 Integrated sound card
> - ALSA 0.9 rc6.1
>
> here's what my modules.conf looks like:
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias usb-controller usb-ohci
> alias char-major-81 bttv
>
> #ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
>
> # module options should go here
>
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
>
> #card #1
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
>
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help with this one.
>
> Thanks
>
> Felix
>
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