[mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

Howard Cokl hojoloco at yahoo.com
Wed May 4 18:37:35 UTC 2005


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> >nvidia and ivtv are very easy, nvidia just download
> >the version you want (probably 7174) so wget
>
>ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7174/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
> >and then as root sh
> >./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
> >It'll do everything for you, build and install the
> >kernel module and the xorg driver/libs.
> >For ivtv just download what you need, I have a old
> >freestyle so I would use wget
>
>http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.2/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j.tgz
> >tar xzf ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j.tgz; cd
> >ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/driver; make; make install; cd
> >../utils; make make install
> >Hope this make sense, trying to get the kids ready
> for
> >bed.  
> >I had to create some devices in /etc/udev/devices
> for
> >the nvidia stuff and had to set up an file to load
> >modules before mythbackend starts, basically
> modprobe
> >ivtv 
> >  
> >
> Thanks Howard!  I've been able to compile these
> parts and get them 
> running.  However I still don't understand if I'm
> going to be able to 
> use rpms that are generally available or if I will
> need to compile code 
> for everything I want to run.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Drew
> 

Drew,
   I'm no expert on FC3 (myth is my only FC box,
otherwise slackware) but I think you should be able to
apt-get all of the myth stuff from atrpms.  They
should  run on your custom kernel just fine I would
think.

Howard


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