[mythtv-users] Looking for a Media PC system
Russ
bigrig64 at comcast.net
Mon Jul 12 23:52:48 EDT 2004
Jarod Wilson wrote:
>On Sunday 11 July 2004 10:35, Greg wrote:
>
>
>>>I notice in the HOW-TO's that my distro of choice (SuSE) is
>>>not covered
>>>(bummer). I did start out with Mandrake but the latest
>>>version I tried
>>>(9.0) was broken and I couldn't get it working. I never have
>>>gotten Red
>>>Hat/Fedora to work (ever).
>>>
>>>
>
>Then you either did something wrong, or you have a hardware problem...
>
>
My very first attempt at Linux (however many years ago) was with Red Hat
6.0. Didn't work. Couldn't get it running at all. Tried again with
Mandrake 5.3. It worked and I played awhile then went back to Win98
(primarily because some software I was using had no Linux equivalent). I
then tried Mandrake 6 and used it even longer, but alas, I fell off the
wagon again. I then bought this new computer (making sure that it was
Linux compatible) and bought a 4 distro set (Fedora 1.0/Mandrake
9.2/SuSE 9.0/Knoppix Live CD). Fedora stalled on install (Like it's
predecessor Red Hat). Mandrake installed but was seriously broken. At
this point I was about to give it up. However, I decided to give SuSE a
chance (since it came with the set, other than that I never had a desire
to try it). It installed without a hitch. Everything worked out of the
box (except sound and that was a minor setting problem - stupid thing
was defaulted to mute - go figure). Even though I set it up with a dual
boot to WinXP, I never use XP. SuSE was never on my list of distros to
try and it is the best one I've found yet (My personal opinion).
>
>
>>>SuSE 9.0 worked out of the box with very
>>>little tweaking (sound was a small issue).
>>>
>>>
>>Rpm's for SUSE 9 & 9.1 can be found here:
>>http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/apt/suse/
>>
>>
Oh yeeeees :-)
>>Kindly provided by Øystein Olsen......bloody nice bloke :)
>>
>>
>
>...But if SuSE works now, definitely go for those rpms. The biggest gotcha on
>SuSE is the need for a custom Qt (also provided there), since the one
>distributed by SuSE is broken.
>
>(Currently typing this email on my SuSE 9.1 Pro workstation ;-)
>
>
9.0 but loving it :-)
OK, This may be a stupid question, buuut ...
In order to get this comp to play tv on this monitor, I would need a tv
tuner card (PVP 250/350). Then it would be routed through my video card
to my monitor (3.0ghz, 80gig HD, 128 GeForce video card, onboard sound
that works), is this correct?
If I wanted to pipe it to my TV then I would need to get a video card
with tv out?
Also, I have 3 older computers laying around (1 AMD 450 and 2 AMD 1ghz).
Would these be big enough to work for Myth TV dedicated boxes?
Thanks
Russ
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