[mythtv-users] Installing MythTV 0.19 on SuSE 10.0

Mike Choy mike at acaciaclose.co.uk
Tue Mar 21 19:46:58 UTC 2006


Lawrwence wrote:
>
>
> On 3/21/06, *Ping-Wu Zhang* <pwzhangz at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pwzhangz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have been thinking about MythTV for quite some time but have
>     just recently ordered a Hauppauge PVR 350.  My OS is SuSE 10.0,
>     and would like to run MythTV along with FreeNX.
>
>     Can anyone tell me where I can find a good place or places that
>     talk about installing MythTV 0.19 on SuSE 10.0 (i.e., HOWTOs) in
>     detail?  Thanks.
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> I'm currently doing a very similar setup except I'm using a PVR-150.  
> You have two key steps:  (1) get the card working and (2) get MythTV 
> working.
>
> For the first step, http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Suse is 
> probably the best place to start.  The ivtv drivers included with SuSE 
> 10 are a bit older but for me that are doing fine ( no reason to 
> upgrade yet ).  Unless you upgrade your kernel past the ivtv 0.3.7 
> threashold you shouldn't have to do anything more than in the basic 
> instructions.  One tip I will offer here, I had no luck with the 
> firmware designated for 0.3.7.  However, when I grabed the firmware 
> for 0.4.0 and put that in the directory expected by 0.3.7 my card came 
> to life. 
>
> For the second step, I found a repository which I added to YaST that 
> offered a MythTV 0.19 bundle.  So far I have only gotten as far as 
> initial setup and haven't had a chance to actually test it yet, but it 
> has appeared to go fine.  The one gottcha on this is that the bundle 
> did not include the database files which I needed to dump into MySQL, 
> but I just went to the MythTV web site and downloaded a package, 
> copied the files over, and it all came together.
>
> When I get home to my system I will try to post the repository address 
> but I believe I just found it by searching this forum or by Google ( 
> can't remember which ).
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Mike C



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