[mythtv-users] Kudos to the KnoppMyth guys!

[Malcolm]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:30:21 -0800
Clay <claybo at pacbell.net> wrote:

> Hey everyone.  I struggled with Gentoo on my ME6000 with a PVR 350.  I 
> got all of it working after a week or two and had spent two months (!) 
> tweaking everything to try and get it all to work.  The end result?  I 
> had TV recording/viewing working beautifully most of this time, but 
> many other things -- such as Mythgame and Mythweb -- did not work.  I 
> couldn't figure out how to get them to work.
> 
> I caved in.  I decided to give KnoppMyth a try.  I went with the 
> "automatic" installation (it does all partitioning and installing for 
> me) and to make a long story short, getting a Myth machine set up with 
> a PVR 350 took me one hour from start to finish.  After installing 
> KnoppMyth 4.2, I downloaded and installed the latest stable ivtv 
> (0.1.9) since ivtv-fb was not working with the packaged version, went 
> through the TVOutHowTo from the ivtv wiki, and I had a 100% working 
> Myth set-up with my ME6000 and PVR 350!  Things that I had otherwise 
> been told were impossible, such as using Mythgame with the PVR 350, 
> worked flawlessly using KnoppMyth.  I could never get any emulator to 
> work before with Gentoo and my 350, but they all work with Knoppmyth.
> 
> If anyone on this list has been contemplating setting up a machine 
> dedicated to Myth, I highly, HIGHLY recommend Knoppmyth.  I am thinking 
> about setting up a few dirt cheap frontend machines just so I can boot 
> them off of the Knoppmyth CD and not have to worry about even having a 
> hard drive.
> 
> Kudos to the KnoppMyth guys!

Yes KnoppMyth is very cool.  I ended up using my own installation in
Mandrake and compiling myth from source because I like to tinker but I was
very impressed with how easy KnoppMyth was.  I wish I could use the
KnoppMyth frontend that runs from the CD with my custom built backend
machine.

Malcolm