[mythtv-users] [Opinion] FC3 really sucks for mythtv use

[James Emmrich]

I'll add my comment,

Although im not a guru myself, and still pretty new to linux when it 
comes to configuring/compiling and editing my rpm sources... I do run 
fedora core 3 without much error.

Ive been working on this thing for 3 days straight tho, its now to the 
point im fustrated so much i cant sleep all i think is 
"gotta-get-myth-working" and in between reading the mail archive 
listings lol

jarods howto is pretty good, a bit tough to follow as he supports a few 
cards and configs (it would be awesome if it was a wiki style) however 
flowed thru the article with minor hickups due to kernel version errors 
(an error over looked on my part).

Now as for fedora as a myth box, im not sure yet, I still have to get 
beyond watching 1 second of video till prebuffering issues kick in.

I like fedora, and for everything that i do and have done so far it 
works great!
Fedora almost seems to take a lot of heat as an unstable distro, well 
from the people i talk to anyways, but personally id recommend it to 
anyone, desktop or mythbox (at the moment :D ).

James

William wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I wanted to pass along my results with FC3 and it's new udev system. I have
>to warn everyone who is not a linux guru to avoid FC3 at all costs. FC2
>works great and should be used instead. 
>
>After a complete wipe and virgin install of FC3 and following Jarods guide I
>wound up with a pretty much unusable system. The first and biggest problems
>is that my 2nd PVR-250 would never work. Any attempt to read from that
>device (video1)would crash the system. I was completely unable to get that
>to work. The device errors out while loading from a modprobe. The backend
>would crash for no reason and with no error output at least 2 times a day.
>
>Also other services like dovecot and postfix would not work either. I use
>this machine to fetch and filter my mail too. (spamassassin and clamav)
>
>After fighting this thing for 3 weeks I blew it all away and did a virgin
>install of FC2 using Jarods older FC2 guide (Thanks for keeping it around
>Jarod). FC2 came right up, everything loads correctly (other than lircd
>which I fixed with an entry in rc.local). The video devices are both present
>and work. The mail services came up with the defaults and have worked
>perfectly since. The backend has been running flawlessly for 10 days now.
>
>I am not a guru but neither am I a novice so unless you like frustration,
>stick with FC2 and request that the repository owners (hey atrpms, are you
>listening?) continue to maintain that release. If you use Jarods guide you
>will definately want to install synaptic to find the latest kernel and
>modules available. 
>
>Of course your milage may vary but looking at how many people have problems
>with fc3 I would say my results are pretty typical.
>
>Good luck and safe computing,
>Bill
>
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