Thanks Axel, I assumed this was the case but it's great to have the confirmation. :)<br><br>Now all I need to know is if anyone's had any back breaking issues with either x86_64 or FC6 and Myth :)<br><br>--Douglas Wagner
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Axel Thimm</b> <<a href="mailto:Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net">Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net</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;">
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:32:44PM -0500, Douglas Wagner wrote:<br>> To add to this, I guess I should probably ask the following (WARNING:<br>> Noobness exposure incoming).<br>><br>> I am aware of several "branches" of MythTV including a "Fixes" branch that I
<br>> should probably be using, given it's pulling anything fixed and verified out<br>> of trunk.<br>><br>> That said, I'm using RedHat and RPMs to keep MythTV updated (as mentioned<br>> below) out of Axel's repository. There are updates comming down the pipe
<br>> for the MythTV packages, are these including the "fixes" branch of<br>> code<br><br>Yes, that's 95% of why these updates appear on ATrpms (stable). The<br>other 5% are for fixing bugs, although in the last years these have
<br>been quite seldom and minor, so they are usually accumulated and<br>passed into the next regular update.<br><br>But beware: There are also other packages at ATrpms (bleeding) that<br>track the latest and greatest from mythtv (trunk) for debugging
<br>purposes only. Many power users have found them working for production,<br>too, but that's not intended for that purpose. Although their feedback<br>concerning bugs found in the trunk is what these packages are after.
<br><br>So play it safe and use the packages that will be pulled in in the<br>default configuration (e.g. w/o atrpms-bleeding). That will buy you<br>the stable series plus the fixes that were officially applied to that<br>
series.<br><br>> or is fixes only available if you're doing a "roll your own"<br>> compilation?<br>><br>> I'm really sorry for the noob question btw.<br><br>n.p. If you don't ask you will not know.
<br><br>> --Douglas Wagner<br>><br>> On 4/25/07, Douglas Wagner <<a href="mailto:douglasw0@gmail.com">douglasw0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> >So I was working last night with Myth2Ipod and was in the middle of
<br>> >transcoding a show to test it out when POOF the PVR simply shuts down on<br>> >me. No power outage, nothing else in the entertainment center went down,<br>> >the PVR just shut off.<br>> ><br>
> >Crud, so I go and try to power it back up...no dice. Change out the power<br>> >supply hoping beyond hope it's a PS failure and not something on the<br>> >motherboard...no dice again.<br>> >
<br>> >(Tho, after testing it, that PS couldn't power up another working computer<br>> >either, so I suspect the PS toasted and took something on the board with<br>> >it). No idea if it's the CPU, Memory or just the board itself.
<br>> ><br>> >So, here I am PVRless and having MB issues. Recently I just replaced the<br>> >CPU in my main windows gaming box and now have a shiny used AMD64 3000+<br>> >laying around doing nothing.
<br>> ><br>> >So, long story short, new motherboard comming in, with a new Media Center<br>> >Case (can't JUST replace components can we? :) ) and unfortunately a new<br>> >Video Card as well (pretty much the same AGP Card I have now in PCI-E
<br>> >format).<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >However, here's where my question comes in. So the prior CPU was an Intel<br>> >based 2.8g 32-bit. I'm replacing that with an AMD Based 64-Bit.<br>
> >Obviously to take advantage of the 64 bit CPU I need a 64 bit operating<br>> >System, which, happily, I can get ahold of since this is linux. The<br>> >question becomes however, is there an increase in speed/stability/something
<br>> >worth dumping a currently working MythTV install. I would admit I'm not<br>> >overly looking forward to a week's reinstallation and re-setup of the box<br>> >from scratch, i've put ALOT of work into it as is, but then again, if I can
<br>> >get a faster/better system out of it i'm all for it.<br>> ><br>> >It is currently running FC5, if I do a re-install I'd be looking at FC6<br>> >(just to stay current).<br>> ><br>
> >So, to summarize the questions and add a few more:<br>> ><br>> >1) Is a reinstall worth it to move from 32 bit to 64 bit?<br>> >2) Are there problems with Myth on a 64 bit OS System?<br>> >3) When going through the installation steps will I get ahold of a 64 bit
<br>> >version of Myth with a 64 bit OS install? (I ask this because while i'm<br>> >not<br>> >a stranger to rolling my own so to speak, the ability to simply use yum or<br>> >another package manager to keep myth updated is a VERY nice concept to
<br>> >me...). I assume if I compile my own i'd get a 64 bit wide version of Myth<br>> >installed (correct me if i'm wrong), but is there an ability to get that<br>> >via<br>> >RPMs?<br>> >4) Are there issues with FC6 or any challenges I might have to face with
<br>> >it that should keep me on FC5?<br>> ><br>> >Anyway, just trying to get a community feel on an upgrade from FC5 to FC6<br>> >and 32-bit to 64-bit. Advice happily taken.<br>> ><br>> >Oh, I guess I should probably ask if anyone sees any issue with the system
<br>> >INITIALLY booting with a hardware change of a new MB and New CPU (on the<br>> >old<br>> >install so I can backup what I need)...I really DO NOT want to loose the<br>> >myth database (i'm using the Stock RH kernel, no patches or custom kernels
<br>> >to screw things up).<br>> ><br>> >--Douglas Wagner<br>> ><br><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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