[mythtv] I'm building a new beast to run MythTV exclusively!

[Mike Javorski]

Not to spoil your thunder on your project, but a couple notes on Gentoo.

 - Consider using reiserfs (ext3 has been having corruption issues of
late, and they may not have all been fixed yet. 

 - Use the EVMS Volume Manager system to manage the drive, this combined
with reiserfs mean that when you need more space in a "partition", you
can expand it without having to shut down at all. and expand onto
multiple drives as well. The only reason to unmount the drive (and shut
down the computer) will be for when you need to install another drive)

I have been running EVMS-LVM+ReiserFS for several months on my main
video file-server (1TB of Raid-5/LVM storage) without incident, running
Gentoo with the gentoo-sources kernel 2.4.19-r9 (but the 2.4.20 kernel
runs great to, just haven't had to shut down my server yet, working on
3-4 months uptime with the array handling about 7-10MB/sec all the time)

And one note on the nForce boards and the Sound on them:
 - Use Alsa or the Commercial OSS drivers to get even half-way decent
sound out of it.. The drivers provided by nvidia for use with the base
Linux OSS system are hacked together cruft that cause more problems then
they are worth. On the upside, the Video drivers are great!!

Have fun.. Myth+Gentoo Rox..

I will be posting "ebuilds" for MythTV .80 final when it is finalized.

- Mike

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 09:48, Jerry Normandin wrote:
> My parts are in!  I've got an MSI board,  Sqeeze 26db cooler (Quite!),  On 
> board Nnvida Nforce Video, 40GB Hard drive, and the Peter color Mid small
> ATX case.  I'm installing Gentoo Linux right now.  I'm going to base the 
> window manger on qtopia and run the EXT3 file system.    Hopefully gentoo 
> will finish the emerge .    Ahh then the fun begins, configure X11 for the 
> Nvidia Nforce,   configure the WinTvGo card,  get all the necessary code
> for MtyhTV.  This will be the first Gentoo system I put up.  I've started way
> back with yggdrasil in 93,  Eventuall going with Mandrake 8.1 (patched
> big time) I have MythTV from CVS running on this box.  Now the stand alone
> MythTV box will hopefully be running Gentoo, this way I'm only going to 
> install what I need for MythTV.  
> 
> I hope to start developing code for this cool project soon!
> I'll be adding an export video module (burns divx and mpeg2
> disk).  I might add dvd support. I only have one DVD burner and that's on my
> software development box (I burn home videos to DVD with Linux and use
> Kino to grab the Video and Cinrella to edit.
> 
> Anyway. Great job everyone, this project is really picking up steam!
> 
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