[mythtv-users] gentoo, latest mythtv - mythfrontend has no text

[sonofzev at iinet.net.au]

On Thu Jul  2  4:50 , Tom Dexter  sent:

>On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Phill Wigginalamar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> But, let's face it.. "a mere $400" isn't exactly chump-change. For an aweful
>> lot of folks, there's no _way_ they're going to be able to just toss out
>> $400 to pick up new hardware.  If you can breathe life into an older system
>> by taking a little compile-time, you can resuscitate and old under-powered
>> machine and possibly get more use out of it.
>>
>> I'm a Gentoo user and I buy hardware more often than I should. (And $400
>> still isn't "a mere" amount of money for me.)  The above argument may not
>> exactly apply to me... But it does apply to many.
>>
>
>At home I do development (primarily LAMP stuff at the moment) on a
>Dell 8250 running Gentoo.
>
>Believe it or not, the laptop I've been using for LAMP development
>when I'm not at home is an old Thinkpad my previous employer didn't
>even want back.  It's a 700 MHz P3 with a 9 GB drive and 265 MB of ram
>on which I installed Gentoo with Fluxbox as a window manager and all
>the stuff I needed for development.
>
>I initially set it up almost as a joke to see how it would go.
>Amazingly it's more than usable.  Upgrades can take pretty long, and I
>occasionally have to wipe /usr/portage/distfiles while it's going
>because I run low on disk :D.
>
>Talk about breathing new life into a machine.
>
>Tom

Actually since I installed VDPAU, I'm spewing that I didn't hold on to my old
Athlon 64 3500+ and 3700+ from 5 years ago... I really don't need the power of
the 4200+ and Opty 170 anymore..... The only two things I needed the power of a
dual core cpu was for de-interlacing and compiling (via emerge). deinterlacing is
done via VDPAU now, and distcc has worked very successfully for me in the past
for emerging.  

If you have another machine in your network, I highly recommend setting up Distcc
(with cross compile if you need it)   It works for most packages but I did find
that earlier versions of mythtv threw error when compiling. It does this for a
few packages but it generally speeds things up massively. For a while I was
compiling with the use of 4 cpu's a total of 7 cores in my lan.. and it was very
fast. 

I haven't used it recently as I have different versions of gcc on different
machines (I've been lazy).  Could be a good little project to redo..