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I should start by saying that I'm both a Linux and MythTV newbie, so
please forgive any obviously stupid questions, but after spending about
two weeks trying to get MythTV up and running I've decided to ask for
help. Before I start with the questions, I feel compelled to introduce
myself:<br>
<br>
I'm a video game producer living in Chicago, so I work closely with
very talented programmers on a daily basis, and although little of
their knowledge rubs off on me, I recognize that I only know enough to
know that my technical abilities/understandings only scratch the
surface and are probably just good enough to get me into trouble.
Having built dozens of computers from scratch and setup more than a few
networks, I am very familiar with Windows, windows based networks and
hardware issues under that operating system, but little of that seems
to be helping with this latest project. I have been a Tivo user
(upgraded my box with a larger hardrive; my first exposure to Linux)
for three years, and its ease of use, or better stated, my wife's love
for and ability to use it, has set the bar for what I've been looking
for in a PVR. MythTV has been bookmarked in my browser for more than a
year (two years?), but it has only been recently that I've really
wanted to take the plunge. After finally setting up dedicated hardware
in our living room and getting my wife used to the idea of playing
movies and music through it (she is Japanese, and she really enjoys
some of the dramas or Japanese movies that I'm able to download as a
break from English), I explored SageTV and SnapStream as Windows based
pvr solutions, but they did not have all the features of MythTV (or the
easy of use of Tivo) and there were several areas where I was not able
to customize them to my liking. MythTV stands out as the complete
solution, if I could just figure out how to get it working.<br>
<p class="MsoNormal">Equipment:<br>
Abit AT7 with RAID (not using RAID)<br>
GeForce 2 GTS 64MB AGP Video Card with S-Video Out.<br>
200 GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus (L01P200) Ultra ATA/133
Hardrive on IDE 1.<br>
Plextor Writer 12/10/32A CD-ROM Burner on IDE 2<br>
Onboard Realtek 8100B Ethernet Network Controller<br>
Onboard VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (for SPDIF out)<br>
512 MB memory<br>
Haugpauge 250 video capture card<br>
Antec True 480 Watt Power Supply</p>
My adventures so far (with results):<br>
I have downloaded and installed Mandrake 9.1 (installed, but could not
get it to recognize my onboard ethernet adapter: fail), knoppMyth
(boots up, seems to start installing something, then sits with a
reddish screen and a movable cursor but no options for Frontend, Auto
Install, Auto Upgrade, etc.: fail) and RedHat 9 using Jarod's guide
(RedHat installs fine, looks like all hardware recognized, but the
guide is currently broken due to changes in the ATrpms: fail). Jarod's
guide looks about right for me in terms of an understandable
walk-through of installing MythTV that still helps me learn something
about what is actually going on (understanding Linux and MythTV) so
that I am not always a newbie. Using Jarod's guide, along with some
help from people here, I can hopefully work around some of the parts
that are not currently working in it, get MythTV going and eventually
help a couple of friends get setup as well. By the way, I have been
reading and searching the mythtv-users mailing list archives (along
with a few other Linux information sites) for help, and will continue
to do so before I send future e-mails.<br>
<br>
First of all Jarod's guide has a message from Axel Thimm that explains
the that guide will not work because he has moved the atrpms to the
bleeding section, so setting up apt to use those seems like the first
place to start. Here is what I did to hopefully do that:.<br>
<br>
(After a fresh install of RedHat 9)<br>
#switchdesk KDE<br>
I only installed with the KDE Desktop Environment, so this was probably
not necessary.<br>
<br>
Next, I installed kick-start since apt does not appear to be installed
by the RedHat installation.<br>
# rpm -ivh
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-18-1.rh9.at.i386.rpm">http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-18-1.rh9.at.i386.rpm</a><br>
(I used 18-1.rh9.at.i386.rpm rather than the 14-1.rh9.at.i386.rpm
because it seemed to be the latest version).<br>
<br>
in "/etc/apt/sources.list" I changed:<br>
rpm <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de">http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de</a> redhat/9/en/i386 at-stable at-good
at-testing<br>
to<br>
rpm <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de">http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de</a> redhat/9/en/i386 at-bleeding<br>
<br>
Is this the correct way to setup getting the atrpms from the
at-bleeding section that Axel mentioned were needed for the guide to
work?<br>
<br>
Many thanks,<br>
<br>
-Alex<br>
<br>
<br>
Many thanks,<br>
<br>
-Alex Offermann<br>
<br>
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