<font size="2">More of a Gentoo question then Mythtv.<br>
<br>
Looking at your USE flags you have both -gtk and gtk. Remove gtk, you
don't need it. I tend to agree with Steve about KDE, but then again I
love KDE and am running it on a Celeron 700Mhz laptop. The trick is not
to emerge entire kde, but just kdebase-meta, and be very careful later
on about what you are emerging.<br>
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Also for mythtv you don't need innodb, sdk, xmms, openal, server,
clamav, dedicated, msn, svga (probably some others too). It's easy to
add additional USE flags later, but you gotta get Mythtv running first.
Go to <a href="http://gentoo-portage.com/USE">http://gentoo-portage.com/USE</a> for reference on USE flags. Read up
on using /etc/portage/package.use instead of global USE flags in
make.conf.</font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><font size="2"><br>
<br>
When emerging something do:<br>
emerge -av <package name><br>
This will tell you exactly what USE flags package wants and give you
chance to bail out. Then you can fine tune the flags for that
particular package.<br>
<br>
Post a particular problem and maybe you'll get more concrete help.<br>
<br>
And finally, don't give up. Gentoo is harder to setup then other distros but once you get a hang of it, you'll never look back.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
</font></span></font><br><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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Hi all,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">My first appearance here! I am a linux newcomer, so
bear with me, please! </span></font><font face="Wingdings" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings;" lang="EN-GB">J</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">
</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">OH BOY!</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Harddisk: Seagate 7200.8 300 GB ide-<br>
Case: Silverstone lc10m w. iMon remote & vfd(display)<br>
Netcard1: Linksys WMP54G netcard, wireless</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Netcard2: Accton std. 10/100 ethernet card</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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"</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Don't hesitate and comment on it!</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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!</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">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!</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">TIA,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Gabriel S. Hansen</span></font></p>
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