[mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV
Nick
knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Thu May 5 15:11:42 UTC 2005
On 5/4/05, Drew Tomlinson <drew at mykitchentable.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to build a MythTV box. I've been using FreeBSD for around 4
> years but I have no experience with Linux. So my first attempt was to
> build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of problems and eventually I
> gave up. Since MythTV was written for Linux I thought I might have an
> easier time just using Linux.
>
> I started with Knoppmyth but couldn't get the CD to boot on my system.
> Lurking here and seeing the success others were having with Fedora and
> Jarod Wilson's guide prompted me to give that a try. But unfortunately,
> I have a Promise 150 SATA controller in my system. Attached to this
> card is a PATA (regular IDE) drive. However the sata_promise driver
> doesn't support the PATA interface on this card. Only the SATA
> interfaces.
>
> Googling suggested that to get this support, I needed to patch the
> sources with libata-devel and rebuild my own kernel. Lot's of googling
> later and I've built and installed a custom kernel. Seems to boot fine
> and the PATA drive is now recognized! :) But now, other packaged
> modules such as the nvidia and ivtv drivers in Jarod Wilson's guide
> don't work. :( I suspect this is because they were packaged for the
> default kernel and not the custom one I built?
>
> It appears I need to learn a whole lot more about Linux and how to build
> what I need from source. Am I on the right track? Can anyone suggest
> some good newbie guides to this stuff? I find snippets googling but
> have been unable to turn up any complete guides.
Drew,
Out of interest, what system/motherboard are you builing your Myth
system with? Are there no other PATA connectors other than those
connected to the Promise controller?
Nick
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