[mythtv-users] MythTV on a Via Epia M10000, how?

[Christoffer Kjølbæk]

tir, 2004-08-31 kl. 12:17 skrev Colin Guthrie:
> Christoffer Kjølbæk wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I saw MythTV some month ago, and wanted to make a box with MythTV.
> > Therefore I bought a Via M10000 board, and have now for a month, tried
> > to make it work.
> > 
> > I have followed the howto at epiaewiki, but can't get the graphics to
> > work. Then I have tried a guide with Fedora, but get kernel panic all
> > the time.
> > 
> > Right now, I am ready to brake my motherboard in pieces, and give up.
> > But before I do this, I would like to now, if anyone outthere has got it
> > working on a Via Epia M10000 card?
> 
> I don't know how many people know about it, but there is a distribution 
> designed specifically for running MythTV on EPIA-M systems.
> 
> It's called MiniMyth.
> 
> http://linpvr.org/
> 
> I've got the same setup but I don't actually use MiniMyth. I built my 
> system from Scratch just to see how everything works. Didn't need to do 
> anything too fancy in the end, just a matter of compiling the right 
> things....
> 
> Anyone is welcome to what I've got if they want it, but it is rather 
> messy and the whole chrooted build environment is actually incorrect at 
> the mo' in that it links against system libs in some places rather than 
> the ones I've built for the EPIA.... but hey it's work in progress.
> 
> I am gonna look again at MiniMyth tho' as it may be a bit more mature 
> than when I last looked at it.

Hey

I have seen this distro, but doesn't that reguire, that you have a
mythbackend running on another system? Couldn't find anything about
frontend and backend on the same machine.

/Christoffer
> 
> All the best
> 
> Col.
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