[mythtv-users] Distro

[Mark Paulus]

Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> Wondering which distro is giving people the least frustrations. I  
> considered doing KoppMyth, but is this something I can easily change/ 
> add to when required?
> 
> Some background as to why I'm giving up on Fedora:
> I was running FC4 for a long time with no problem until one day LVM  
> decided to trash my superblocks - yes, EVERY superblock on my disk.  
> All that work is now gone. So I tried FC5 on a new disk. Ran into  
> dependencies that couldn't be resolved. bind conflicted with some  
> other package and kept trying to re-download the 600MB of packages  
> every time I tried. After the 4th time of adding/removing packages to  
> solve dependencies, I gave up. Then I couldn't get nvidia driver to  
> load. No idea why. I was too frustrated to find out. So I go back to  
> FC4 and haven't been able to get yum upgrade to finish after 2.5 days  
> of trying. 403's, 404's, parser errors. Forget it. It's not worth it.
> 
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Personally, I use debian sarge (http://www.debian.org).  You can 
download a 35MB Netinstall ISO Image to burn to CD.  Then boot and 
install.  Christian Marillat has a repository that contains all the 
Mythtv .debs and dependencies (ffmpeg, transcode, etc) at 
http://www.debian-multimedia.org).

I pick up a 2.6.16 kernel from http://www.backports.org, since I'm using 
a SIL3112 SATA controller, and the stock 2.6.8 kernel from sarge doesn't 
seem to like it so well.

You can also get the stuff to make ivtv debianized packages from 
http://www.hellion.org.

Most everything is stock this way.  I have to do a bit of customization 
to mythtv because I use an air2pc card and the mythtv from 
www.debian-multimedia.org doesn't recognize it.  A disconnect between 
the 2.6.8 headers used in his packages and the 2.6.16 kernel I use. 
But, even that is pretty automatic and straightforward.

This is, of course, all my $0.02 worth.  And as always, YMMV....



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