[mythtv-users] Installed and Working

[Cedar McKay]

I have the same board. Now that I have it working, I like it, but my 
lord, what a pain in the ass to get working! Did you get the lilo 
works, grub crashes system on boot problem with this board and RH8? 
Anyway, my real question is about usb. Everything on my machine works 
great now, except if I plug any usb device in it will lock hard 
instantly. This is despite using the nforce drivers. Makes it kind of 
hard to troubleshoot. If you managed to figure this out, I would love 
any advice, and a copy of your modules.conf file.



thanks,


cedar


On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 05:51  AM, Jason James wrote:

> I just got MythTV working last night. I want to thank
> everyone working on this project; it's truly awesome
> and a testament to the power of the
> open-souce/free-software development community.
>
> The docs in particular are worth special kudos. They
> made everything so much easier. I basically followed
> them to the letter, except I used apt-get and
> freshrpms (and xmltv from Axel Thimm) whenever
> possible. I also installed alsa from freshrpms to get
> sound working.
>
> To the guy who keeps getting seg faults when running
> mythfilldatabase, I was also getting this problem. I
> upgraded to CVS and the problem stopped.
>
> It took awhile to get to this point for the reasons
> often mentioned on this list: hardware troubles. My
> first attempt was with a P3/460 processor and an ATI
> AIW card. After reading the lists, I knew I had to get
> a different card. I was feeling too cheap to upgrade
> the mobo and CPU, so I bought a Matrox G200 TV. This
> didn't work much better, though I was able to get TV
> watching working with Zapping and recording with
> WebVCRPlus.
>
> I finally sucked it up and bought a WinTV and a new
> CPU/mobo. My goal was something fast, reliable and
> well supported under Linux/MythTV. I mostly got what I
> wanted, except for one blunder (detailed in a rant
> below).
>
> Here is my current hw list:
>
> AMD Athlon XP 2100+
> 256MB DDR
> 80GB Seagate Barricuda (so quiet!)
> Asus A7N266-VM motherboard (with Nforce and GeForce2
> MX)
> WinTV PCI (model 404 with IRC)
> RedHat 8.0
>
> <rant> NVIDIA sucks for Linux. The only thing I would
> avoid is the Nforce chipset and the GeForce. It's a
> total pain to install and (I'm sure) will be a total
> pain to maintain for a very simple reason: no GPL'ed
> drivers.
>
> As long as NVIDIA is stuck in the dark ages, I will
> never use or recommend their gear again. RH8 is so
> easy to install, it has autodetected nearly every
> piece of hardware I've ever had, but there is nothing
> it can do with NVIDIA's binary only drivers. NVIDIA's
> drivers have to be downloaded and installed from their
> website rather than included in the distro. The entire
> RH install process was ugly and lengthy because of
> NVIDIA. Typically, RH8 gets X working perfectly right
> out of the box, but with this NVIDIA chipset, it took
> hours to get the Geforce and my mouse working
> properly.
>
> And then guess what, the performance totally sucked!
> The screen redraw was incredibly slow. Only by
> downloading and rebuilding the source RPMs was I able
> to get good performance.
>
> And now that it's working, everytime I upgrade my
> kernel, which will probably be fairly often since
> there are frequent security updates, since RH 8.1 will
> be out soon, since I don't have LIRC working yet, I
> will have to go through a bunch of extra steps:
> --switch to runlevel 3
> --reboot with new kernel
> --rebuild the NVIDIA drivers for the nforce and
> geforce and install them
> --reboot and make sure it works
> --switch back to runlevel 5
>
> It isn't worth it to me to go through all of this just
> for a new kernel. I'll never use NVIDIA again. </rant>
>
> Again, thanks to everyone for making MythTV such a
> great project. I'll keep pestering with questions and
> try to offer my experiences if they seem helpful.
>
> ./jj
>
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