<div>May I point you over to, drum roll please.....!<br><a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV">http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV</a></div>
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<div>Just follow this guide completely and you'll have a completely perfect system, bloat-free and all. I noticed you said you have KDE and I'll let you in on a little secret (well its not really a secret) KDE is way huge and bloated and way more than you'll ever need to run MythTV. At most all you need is fluxbox or evilwm. Read the guide. Trust me.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gabriel Schønau Hansen</b> <<a href="mailto:gabriel@schoenau.dk">gabriel@schoenau.dk</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi all,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">My first appearance here! I am a linux newcomer, so bear with me, please! </span></font><font face="Wingdings" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">After totally ditching MCE2005 and XP+MediaPortal, I decided to do linux+mythtv for my HTPC. I started out with trying out knoppmyth and mythdora, but, tbh, they suck and was waaay to bloated for my machine. Therefore, I decided to go down the Gentoo path, making a linux install that was as small and fast as possible without spending too much time, and learning lots of linux at the same time.
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">OH BOY!</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">After 40+ hours, I'm on the brink of giving up! I have to be quite conservative and not use anything but a very customized linux, as I'm running on a Duron 800:
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">mobo: Abit KT7-RAID<br>cpu: Duron 800<br>RAM: 3*128 MB SDram PC133<br>GFX: ATI Radeon 9250, 128 MB w TV-out<br>TV-card: Hauppage 500MCE
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Harddisk: Seagate 7200.8 300 GB ide-<br>Case: Silverstone lc10m w. iMon remote & vfd(display)<br>Netcard1: Linksys WMP54G netcard, wireless
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Netcard2: Accton std. 10/100 ethernet card</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Right now, I'm running KDE 3.4 on Gentoo 2.6.14-r2, and I am recompiling MySql cause it failed to emerge properly, making MythTV install fail miserably! Here's my USE line:
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">USE="-gtk -gnome X acpi apm apache2 alsa berkdb clamav cdr dedicated dvb dvd dvdr dvdread gd gtk gtk2 innodb joystick kde lirc mp3 mpeg msn mysql mythtv openal opengl perl qt samba sdk server ssl svga truetype usb v4l wifi xine xmms"
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Don't hesitate and comment on it!</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Browsing a few digests of this mailing list and my experiences so far, I have reached the conclusion, that most of my probs relates to having wrong/missing USE variables in my /etc/make.conf
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">If any of u out there with a sleek running Gentoo/MythTV setup could share their USE-lineup, I'd be MORE than happy for it! Possibly explaining why particular variables are needed!
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I'm really trying hard here, but being new to linux sure gives me the steep learning curve galore. Any advice would be much appreciated, as I plan on doing an article for other newbies like myself on a Danish HTPC site!
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">TIA,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Gabriel S. Hansen</span></font></p></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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