On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Darryl Hirschler <<a href="mailto:Darryl.Hirschler@practiceworks.com">Darryl.Hirschler@practiceworks.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><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;">I am a Linux and MythTV newbie. I fooled around with
Mythbuntu, and not really sure why I decided to do this, but I decided to
abandon Mythbuntu and go at it from scratch. So I did the following:</span></font></p><font size="2"><font face="Arial">...</font></font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- I still have to configure LIRC for my remote</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- I have to figure out permissions between "mythtv"
user, "darryl" user, and "root". I am still a
little confused by some of this. Currently, "darryl" can
launch myth-backend and start mythtv, but "mythtv" user cannot.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- disable the screen saver</span></font></p>...</div></div><br></blockquote></div><br><br>Congratulations!! You're where I was almost 2 years ago. I had never used Linux or Myth before. Words like compile, make, permissions, modprobe, dmesg were like a foreign language.<br>
<br>I personally think you did the right thing by assembling it yourself, rather than using one of the all-in-one distros. At the time I started with Knoppmyth (which is/was an impressive piece of work). But I got fustrated whenever I tried to change something from the defaults. The response on their forum was always - don't try to upgrade anything separately, the whole thing might break.<br>
<br>So - I went the way of Fedora (mostly inspired by Jarod's guide). I think Fedora or Ubuntu really are the two choices if you're starting from scratch these days and don't have history. By pulling it together yourself, you're in a much better position to fix things when they go wrong.<br>
<br>LIRC also foxed me for a while. It's kind-of confusing between what support is built into your kernel vs needing something extra, and where the configuration files need to go. I use a Microsoft MCE remote - and the instructions on the Myth wiki for that are very clear and got me straight.<br>
<br>Anyway - enjoy the ride. The biggest problem imho is becoming addicted, continually wanting to learn more, fiddle a lot, and it becoming a huge timesync!<br>