[mythtv-users] Myth tv and Gentoo?

[Martin, Stephen]

I *love* gentoo and would never go back to RH, particularly now that 
they're cutting off bugfix support after only one year.

I don't have a Wonder, but I can't imagine why you'd have any problems 
with the Wonder if you've got it working under RH.  Honestly, I've found 
most things work out-of-the-box better under gentoo anyway, since you 
have some control over what compile options get enabled.  The only thing 
I don't like about Gentoo is that KDE takes 8-12 hours to compile.  If 
you stick to a lightweight wm, you should have no problems at all.

As for the CD's, the only difference is in installation time.  The 
stage3 install will install a pre-compiled base-system.  Stage1 will 
download and compile everything from scratch.  It's really not any more 
difficult to do a stage1 install over a stage3 install (3 extra 
commands), but if it's your first time, you might want to go stage3 so 
you don't spend 4 or 5 hours doing the install, only to discover it 
didn't work, or you don't like it.  Also, any upgrades you do later will 
be downloaded and compiled from scratch, so eventually the generic 
packages that got installed from stage3 will get overwritten when new 
versions come out.  And, despite what most gentoo'ers will tell you, 
there's not that much of a performance difference between something 
compiled for a 386 vs. something compiled for a 686.

I really don't think you'll have any trouble.  Just be sure to take a 
look at the portage guide and rc-scripts guide once you get it installed.

-Steve

Joshua Santelli wrote:
> I would be interested in the gentoo live CD, I think. 
> I have the same Mobo (asus a7n266-vm)and have been
> batling with a RH 9.0 install.  Although it's working
> I would rather switch to Gentoo (I just don't trust
> these RPMs).  
> 
> I would be using the ATI wonder ve that I have, not a
> hardware encoder like the PVR250.  Any problems
> getting that working with Gentoo?
> 
> Also, I very new to Gentoo but might wipe RH and start
> from scratch this weekend.  What "CD" do you recommend
> for Mythtv?  They talk about "stage 1-3" and recommend
> 3 for beginers.  Is it crazy to want to build
> everything.  I would like to have a basic system, no
> KDE or Gnome (would prefer blackbox, fvwm or another
> lightweight desktop).
> 
> tia,
> josh
>