[mythtv-users] RE: MythTV on SuSE 9.2

Richard Mixon (qwest) rnmixon at qwest.net
Mon Jan 3 01:57:03 EST 2005


Andrew,
I use this site as a starting point.

I have done quite well with SuSE 9.2 up to the point of getting my
nVidia MX 440 SE card to switch to svideo and provide the proper
resolution. Things work well in a window on my 19" Sony computer
monitor - but what I really want is to drive my 31" Toshiba TV from the
s-video out of the nVidia card. I think the problem is I'm using the
wrong driver - but am busy and will not get back to it for a day or two.

I have not had to compile any packages so far - just use apt and the
SuSE rpms (be sure and use the DVD, not just the CDs which lack some
necessary packages. Plus I had to trace down a few dependency problems -
e.g. try to get one from the apt sources, it needs a rpm that is only on
the SuSE 9.2 DVD; get that then get the apt RPMs, then it needs one more
SuSE DVD rpm - but after a few iterations I got everything. Also apt
will upgrade KDE which was a bit trick, but a post showed me how to
resolve that.

Sorry I do not have time to be more specific now.

Post both to the Myth and Suseto the list, I believe you will get other
help as well.

I will have more to report in a few days

 - Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Bassett [mailto:abassett at bassettcorp.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 3:21 PM
To: rnmixon at FromLtoJ.com
Subject: MythTV on SuSE 9.2


Hello,

     I got your e-mail off of the MythTV mailing list from a few days
ago. I recently put together a MythTV box, and stumbled across Jarod
Wilson's install guide, but I am unhappy with the current state of
Fedora. I'm more accustomed to SuSE, and noticed that you are running it
as well. Ive read before that SuSE has problems with MythTV because of
differeing qt-devel packages. Have you had any problems?

Is there a site like Jarod Wilson's for SuSE? or an apt repository like
Axel Thimm's? It would be a pain to have to compile everything from
source, but I'll do what I have to do.

Thanks!

Andrew Bassett



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