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

[Mike Javorski]

On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 01:26, Tony Clark wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yup sure about it.. At least up till 2.4.20-pre's. I have switched all
my boxen over to reiserfs.. It has it's little quirks, but has proved to
be a lot more stable (esp. when dealing with multi-gigabyte video files)



> 
> > 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
> 
It's "supported" but not very well. The driver was a hack of the i810
driver, and as such is not truly geared for the nforce. (according to
many people on the linux-sound mailing lists the alsa implementation is
better, and the commercial oss one is the best)


> >
> > 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

Dunno if I will get that one done, but it should be possible.

- Mike