[mythtv-users] Xbox MythTv with SVN trunk?

William Munson william_munson at bellsouth.net
Fri Jun 29 16:59:42 UTC 2007


ikke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I give a try for linux MythTv frontend on old xbox. My
> backend is SVN trunk, so old versions are out of question. However it
> seems that trunk version doesn't compile on Xebian, which is same as
> debian sarge. And Xebian is not officially updateable to etch, which
> would have the missing libraries (libqt3-mt-dev).
>
> Has anyone been able to run >.20 trunk version of MythTv on Xebian? How?
>
> The biggest problems on upgrading to etch seems to be:
>
> 1. xf86 -> xorg change, where xorg doesn't have the proper driver
> module for xbox. Could it be run without X with fbdev?
>
> 2. Kernel jump from 2.4 -> 2.6. There seems to be some brave people
> hacking 2.6 to be xbox compatible, but it doesn't seem too stable yet.
>
>   

The biggest gotcha is that the xbox with myth is so slow its unusable. 
10 seconds to change menus and forget about doing anything HD. Mine has 
been retired for a year now.



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