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

[Tony Clark]

On Sunday 16 March 2003 06.48, Mike Javorski wrote:
> 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.
Are you sure about this?  I'm aware of one very isolated case in 2.4.20 and 
earlier kernels.  Been running ext3 for a long time here and have not been 
bitten yet.  Have had problems with reiserfs though in the past and just saw 
another patch in the ac-kernels for reiserfs.


> 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!!

I thought there was kernel OSS support now, it maybe an ac kernel though.  Is 
this what your talking about.  Be aware also there are problems adding multi 
sound cards using alsa, kernel-2.4.x, oss emulation and devfs.
http://opensrc.org/alsa/index.php?page=Getting+oss+emulation+to+work+with+2+Sound+cards

>
> Have fun.. Myth+Gentoo Rox..
>
> I will be posting "ebuilds" for MythTV .80 final when it is finalized.

Now an xmltv auto building ebuild would be of real value, it's the reason that 
mythtv can't be added to Gentoo's portage tree.

tony

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