I completely understand your frustration. After fighting with the mythtv dependency issues in FC4 for too long I tried the upgrade a month ago and it pretty much went to hell. <br><br>Before switching to unbuntu try the clean FC5 install. I am going to second Andrew on this one. It took me days to get MythTV with FC4 configured properly between my
xorg.conf and other things but when I did a fresh install of FC5 and used Jarrod's guide as a guideline everything pretty much just worked. It even recognized my TV via the S-video out with a simple <a href="http://x.org">
x.org</a> reconfig without my changing anything. <br><br>-Seth<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Davis</b> <<a href="mailto:andrew@nccomp.com">andrew@nccomp.com</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;">Funny, just last weekend I did a clean install of FC5 and installed Myth<br>and other than some issues with my remote (which are resolved now), its
<br>99% working and the underlying FC5 is running w/o issue. Perhaps your<br>ranting is about your own installation choices. :)<br><br>Tom Greer wrote:<br>> This email is simply a rant... but I need to express my frustration,
<br>> so I'm begging forgiveness in advance.<br>><br>> I've been using MythTV for over a year now. I originally tried to<br>> make it work with SuSE (wasted lots of time there), until I found<br>> Jarod Wilson's wonderful HOW-TO for installing Myth on Fedora Core 4.
<br>> (Thank you, Jarod!) I switched to Fedora and got MythTV installed and<br>> working on 2 machines.<br>><br>> But over the year, I continually experienced problems when updating or<br>> upgrading via yum. Over and over again, yum refused to do anything
<br>> because of dependency problems. Each time, I had to invest time and<br>> effort to work around the problem.<br>><br>> When I was confronted with the problem again this week, I decided to<br>> upgrade to Fedora Core 5. So I downloaded the DVD ISO, verified the
<br>> DVD was good and upgraded the master backend. After the upgrade, the<br>> system couldn't launch the X server. So I tried to run "yum<br>> upgrade". It refused due to a conflict over the boot image.
<br>><br>> So I copied all my recordings to another box and dumped a backup of<br>> mythconverg - and did a clean install of Fedora Core 5. Immediately<br>> after first boot, I tried "yum upgrade". Same problem.
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