[mythtv-users] need help with wintv-401 and myth

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On December 10, 2003 06:26 am, Patrick E. McKnight wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> It dawned on me after reading your reply that I might have overlooked
> one small detail.  Was qt compiled with the mysql USE flag?  Or perhaps
> it is the other way around...but I know you need qt and mysql in your
> USE flags.  Since I do not use KDE I usually have -qt specified.  Also I
> found that when things were buggered up on my myth machine early on, I
> recompiled all the packages making sure that each and every compiler
> setting was correct.

yes. the mythtv emerge will fail to install without sql support in qt. I had 
to recompile qt the day before yesterday :)

> Oh, one other thing....I agree with you about ~x86 making your system
> globally unstable, however, when I find a particular package failing to
> work I usually get better results by specifying this setting prior to an
> emerge of only that package.  In other words, you can use:
>
> USE="ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86" emerge -p myth
>
> and it will not hose your entire system.

Yeah. Once in a while its not bad, and I did try that, but as I said in my 
last message, there was no update, so the packages for ~x86 and normal, are 
the same.

> BTW, what 2.6 kernel did you try?  I had no luck with the test kernels
> prior to 9 but since that time they all compiled.  LVM is another matter
> altogether.  It appears that others on the gentoo forums have had
> success using LVM with 2.6 kernels.  I quickly read through the
> following post, perhaps it will help.
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=70838
>
> Also, I found that alsa sound in the 2.6 kernel was substantially easier
> and provided better support for all my sound cards (e.g., sound blaster
> Live 5.1 and VIA VT8233 in particular).

Yeah, Alsa is a nice thing :) I've been using it since ALSA 0.5 was new. :D

> Hope this helps.  If nothing else we can rule out some explanations.

Thanks :)

> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>
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