[mythtv-users] Taking the plunge - General questionsaboutsetup
and PVR250
Braden Stephens
mail2002 at mediaeon.com
Tue May 27 10:49:32 EDT 2003
Aran, I wish I had the same experience, but my MythTV-RH9 box is still
"uncooperative"...
A quick HOW-TO on setting up MythTV using atrpms, apt-get etc would be
nice (which I did use by the way).
Do you have the time?
brad
-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Aran Cox
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:20 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Taking the plunge - General
questionsaboutsetup and PVR250
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 10:17, Pierre-Olivier Bouchard wrote:
> Gentoo works well for me, I didn't experience any of the quirks redhat
> users report. Plus, it's package system is a bit pased on BSD ports,
you
> could feel closer to home :)
>
What's all this I keep hearing about "quirks" with RedHat? I got MythTV
set up using RPMS for everything I needed and it worked just fine. The
issues I had were all driver or hardware related and were not in any way
caused by RH. In fact, I'm still using the RH9 provided kernels! I
don't recall reading anywhere on this list that users have had problems
with RedHat per se, it's been mostly user in-experience or unwillingness
(or inability, because they want to use PVR-250) to take advantage of
the pre-compiled packages.
The recent "Install tips for RH9 and PVR250" spends virtually the whole
time on completely non-RH related topics which you'd have to do no
matter what the distro. Like, compiling the ivtv drivers, compiling
from CVS, installing Nvidia drivers.
I do not want to start a distro holy war here, my point is only that RH9
has worked well for me and I just don't see the quirks that you refer
to. In fact, if you don't need the CVS version of MythTV then RH9 is
probably an excellent choice for a distro. Especially when combined
with apt-get and the repositories at fresrpms.net and atrpms.
Regards,
Aran
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