[mythtv-users] RE: MythTV on SuSE 9.2

Greg greg.d at cwgsy.net
Mon Jan 3 12:24:06 EST 2005


Goto:
http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/apt/suse/ 

For suse rpm's, kindly provided by Øystein Olsen.

Greg

> 
> 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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