[mythtv-users] KnoppMyth, too good to be true?

Blake blake at kingdomrpg.com
Mon Feb 20 19:01:59 UTC 2006


On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:38:37 -0800, yan seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:

> Blake wrote:
>
>> On the other hand, if it goes seriously south, you have less grounding
>> than you might if you did an FC4/Ubuntu/whatever install.
>>
>> (I really wanted to make Knoppmyth work but it installs beautifully then
>> goes completely black, no command prompt, nothin'. Nobody seems to know
>> why.)
>>
>>
> I ran into that....  Turned out to be insufficient video memory on the
> video card - this was one of those 'shared memory' cheapo boxen - and it
> was set to 4MB.  Upping the video memory to 64 MB fixed that problem....

Hmmm. This is a pretty run-of-the-mill 64MB GeForce. The thing that kills  
me is that I had it working once, sort of.

> The thing to remember, though, is that it is basically a debian install
> once it's done, so if you can find your way around debian, you should be  
> OK.

It's compelling to try, for sure, because it is "so easy".


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