[mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 10/20/2005 3:53 AM ffrr wrote:

> Andrew Close wrote:
>
>>>
>>> How about trying one of the "quickstart" distros like KnoppMyth or 
>>> MythDora.
>>> Personally, I moved away from the Mandrake based distros a while 
>>> ago. Too
>>> much overhead. If you're feeling up to the challenge, you can 
>>> install Gentoo
>>> and create a truly customized Myth install. It's what I run on my 
>>> laptop.
>>> HOURS of compiling fun  ;-)
>>>   
>>
>>
>> i second that.  if you're going to start over you may want to give
>> another distro a try.  KnoppMyth is a pretty quick and very painless
>> install.  it has full support for all Myth's many wonderful features
>> OOtB (out of the box).  if you have fairly recent hardware, 'it just
>> works'.
>>
>> nuff said.
>>
>
>
> I got to thinking, maybe I could try knoppmyth fairly painlessly.  I 
> found an old 15GB IDE drive from an old computer and plugged it into 
> my main machine.  I downloaded the very latest knoppmyth (just 
> announced here in a message today), and quickly installed it.  I 
> didn't get all the myth stuff going - like the tv guide etc, just 
> enough to watch live TV.
>
> BTW: it allowed me to import my channels.conf, a feature which people 
> here have said is not in the released mythtv version !!!
>
> Anyway, the big discovery is...  rock solid pictures.  Not one single 
> damn glitch in sight, nor in the audio either :-)
>
> Conclusions,
> - it can't be signal strength related, so no point in buying a new card
> - can't be interrupt related - not directly anyway as nothing has 
> changed in my hardware setup or BIOS
> - kernel is 2.6.13.2, so maybe a newer kernel than the 2.6.11 I have 
> now might fix it (roll on Mandriva 2006 - or else I look at upgrading 
> the kernel - about which I know nothing--- yet)
>
>
>
>
> btw:  one thing that didn't work was when knoppmyth asked if the 
> ethernet interface should use dhcp I said yes. This failed (sometimes 
> the dhcp server in my NAT firewall/router plays up) but it didn't go 
> back and let me do it manually.  Now there's no ethernet interface 
> configured at all.  I can't find any way to do it manually now.  This 
> is one of the bothers of a cutdown distro I guess... no nice GUI to do 
> this sort of stuff.  Is there any way to rerun the script that 
> configures the ethernet? 


I don't know about KnoppMyth specifically but 'dhcpcd' that's on my 
Gentoo system looks like what you need.  Maybe KnoppMyth has it?

Cheers,

Drew

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