[mythtv-users] MythTV : Little Sleep, Lots Of Reading... I Failed.

[Rob Case]

Ok so I started out this weekend with the goal of setting up a MythTV box 
before the weekend was over.. sleep was not an option :)

I started out where I left off last week.. RH9/PVR-250/SB Live!

Jarod Wilson sent me his HOWTO and was readily available this weekend for 
fielding questions. I made it through numerous (20+) reinstalls with all of 
them ending the same way. (I don't blame the instructions, but rather my 
setup)

mythbackend, mythfrontend both loaded. Was able to setup scheduling and 
tweak all the settings via the frontend.  Selecting "Watch TV" would lock 
the front end up.

The sound worked prior to adding ALSA. Once ALSA was added I could not play 
any sounds but the test sound in KDE played while producing errors. (SB 
Live!)

So tiring of the 3 Disk reinstalls and 1 hour+ idle time I decided to try my 
luck at Slackware 9 using one of the guides from http://pvrhw.goldfish.org

After failing several times I decided to journey into the unknown and try 
Debian. Until tonight I had never tried Debian. I love it! Unfortunately I 
got hung up on the sound again! And my PVR-250 doesn't like bttv. So I tried 
to download the ALSA source and compile the drivers based on the SB Live! 
Alsa-project.org instructions and had even more issues.

I have read with the PVR250 you do not need a sound card.. is this true? 
Will on board sound hurt my performance?

I don't care if it takes me days as long as I have a MythTV box in the end! 
hehe I want to turn my TiVO off just for spite! But I can't miss Charmed :)

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