<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 25, 2007 3:26 PM, Brad DerManouelian <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Dec 25, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Steve Cooke wrote:<br><br>> Brad DerManouelian wrote:<br>><br>>> It sounds like you need to start from the beginning.<br>>> What guide are you following?
<br>>><br>>><br>><br>> Hi Brad,<br>><br>> I'm following no one particular guide, as the guides I've used have<br>> all<br>> left me with unusable installations. The guide I originally followed
<br>> was:<br>> <a href="http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/" target="_blank">http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/</a><br>><br>> This was helpful as far as the kernal changes from memory - we are<br>> talking 12 months ago though.
<br><br></div>That's a great place to start. Unfortunately, it's hard to help with a<br>generic problem like, "It just won't work" or "my installation is<br>unusuable". I would recommend starting from scratch. Reformat the
<br>drive, install the OS again, start at the beginning with the guide and<br>when you run into a problem, ask a specific question about that<br>particular problem to get you through to the next step.<br><br>The problem with guides is that they are just that - a guide. It was
<br>correct at the time it was written, but software is continually<br>changing and what did work before might not work exactly the same way<br>now. For instance, I know ivtv commands changed since the time the<br>guide you mentioned was written. However, checking the -help for
<br>command syntax or searching the archives for the error message or<br>asking on the list "When I type this command, I get this error. What<br>should I do?"<br><br>When I started using MythTV a couple of years ago, I started with that
<br>guide and I ended up reinstalling the OS a couple of times and<br>uninstalling/reinstalling all my packages 2-3 times before I got a<br>combination that worked. I learned a lot in that process and now<br>understand how to resolve dependency issues and how to configure my
<br>system to do what I want it to do rather than what someone else wanted<br>their system to do that I am now copying.<br><br>Now that I think about it, the first time I installed, I used<br>KnoppMyth because I saw a video about how easy it was to set up. It
<br>really was. I had it up and running in about 30 minutes after I<br>installed and hooked up my PVR-350. If you're getting frustrated with<br>setting everything up yourself, try one of the Myth-specific distros<br>like KnoppMyth. More popular ones have come along since then like
<br>Mythbuntu and Mythdora. There are others, but these are the ones I<br>hear about the most. There are good discussions about them in the<br>archives, as well. Like here: <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/198511" target="_blank">
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/198511</a><br><br>Stick with it. You will soon learn the joy of turning on your TV and<br>browsing through a list of programs you want to see waiting for you on<br>demand without commercial interruption. :)
<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>I can "second" the previous posts. When I start to build my Myth box (over a year and 1/2 ago)I used KnoppMyth for my first go around and got it running in a week.
<br><br>Definitely try one of the complete distros. You'll have much better luck! The is a lot of buzz on <br clear="all">Mythbuntu and Mythdora and I hear that they are both good as well. <br><br>If you try KnoppMyth this week it will be ready before the new year!
<br>-- <br>Tim<br>