[mythtv-users] MythTV on Xbox, again, SUCCESS

Russell Salerno rsalern5 at optonline.net
Thu Oct 13 19:06:53 EDT 2005


Which release of Myth gets installed by this process?  

Any chance it is release-0-18-fixes (aka 0.18.2 source - revision 7448)?

At 11:44 PM 10/13/2005 +0200, you wrote:
>> A few weeks ago I rebuilt the mythtv debian source packages against
>> libraries available in etch.  These *might* install on xebian.  Add
>> "http://alexfisher.me.uk/debian/ etch main" to your apt sources and
>> comment out the other mythtv source to find out.
>
>This did it! Thanks Alex!
>
>For all those interested, install it while you can, it might stop working
>in the future.
>
>Here are the details:
>
>I followed the instructions on
><http://www.mythtv-xbox.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=36>,
>but used the following sources.list:
>
>xbox:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
>deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main
>deb http://alexfisher.me.uk/debian/ etch main
>deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
>
>You might also try to modify the mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta scripts, by
>changing the compatible version to xebian 1.1.4 (in install.pl) and
>changing the conf/sources.list file to match the above.
>
>The key here is that debian testing (etch) is used instead of unstable
>(sid), and that Alex's repository is used.
>
>You can use any debian mirror for the main debian repository.
>
>I managed to install mythtv-frontend and all the plugins.
>I configured the frontend and watched LiveTV for a few minutes. Finally!
>
>There is however one problem left. The remote does not work (actually the
>lirc driver). I get the following in dmesg:
>
>lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
>usb.c: registered new driver xir
>devfs_register(lirc/0): could not append to parent, err: -17
>lirc_xir: driver registered (minor 0)
>
>I didn't have the time to investigate it, but it seems that it has
>something to do with udev (using /dev/lirc/0 instead of /dev/lirc0). I
>hope it can be solved...
>
>I hope this helps. Good luck.
>
>-- 
>Vladan Bato
>vbato at ieee.org
>
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