[mythtv-users] Fedora FC2

[Dave Myron]

If you send it over to me I can quickly put in the HTML for simple headings,
subheadings, and paragraph tags. 

-----Original Message-----
From: knight at pogmech.net [mailto:knight at pogmech.net] 
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 11:17 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Fedora FC2


This is basically what I did, but I did not set the REGPARM to no. I left it
default(yes). The only thing I changed was the 4stack question.  My setup
works fine with it turned on.  I tested it with it off and it didn't make a
difference.  I left mine on for now.

THis is for the Nvidia drivers v4363.  

I created a rough draft of a fairly complete How-To on setting up MythTV on
Fedora Core 2 from virtually scratch.  It's not a complete doc by any means,
but thought it would help a few ppl out here.

The doc is in pure text format, but takes up ~45k.  So dumping it on the
list may not be a good thing.

I'm trying to clean it up to make it look nice for web viewing, but I'm not
an HTML person.  I might just stick the txt file on a website and it can be
view from there.  Since it's not in html format, wordwrap is off.. so
hopefully ppl won't get too annoyed with the very long sentences
(paragraphs).  I guess you can always just d/l the file and view it in your
favorite editor. :)


Anyway, i'll post a link to it later tonight.


Thanks,
 -Rod




On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 08:13:17PM -0700, daryl faulds wrote:
> 
> Yes, I was too brief.
> 
> Here is a more complete version, to get around the FC2/Nvidia problem 
> (think -- cut and paste):
> 
> First download kernel 2.6.6 from whereever you wish and the nvidia 
> install file from www.nvidia.com. I put
> linux-2.6.6.tar.bz2 on a cdrom just to be sure I could get it when I 
> needed it. Keep your NIC attached to the internet, you'll see why in a 
> moment, especially if you did a custom FC2 install.
> 
> 1) Boot the machine that has the disfunctional FC2 installed and at 
> the grub prompt quickly enter "a"
> "return" and then "3" "return" to get into the TUI.
> 2) Login as "root" at Fedora Core release 2 kernel
> 2.6.5-1.358
> 3) At the root prompt enter "yum update" and accept the updates
> 4) To be sure you have it, at the root prompt enter "yum install 
> kernel-source" if you see "kernel source installed and is latest 
> version" you are good to go.
> 5) Mount the cdrom and at the root prompt enter "cd /mnt/cdrom" (or cd 
> to where you have the new kernel)
> 6) At the root prompt enter "cp linux-2.6.6.tar.bz2 /usr/src/"
> 7) At the root prompt enter "cd /usr/src"
> 8) At the root prompt enter "tar -jxvf linux-2.6.6.tar.bz2"
> 9) At the root prompt enter "cd linux-2.6.5-1.358"
> 10) At the root prompt enter "cd configs"
> 11) At the root prompt enter "ls" and select your proper kernel. 
> Unless you have a multi-processor or a really old machine enter this: 
> "cp kernel-2.6.5-i686.config /usr/src/linux-2.6.6"
> 12) At the root prompt enter "cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.6"
> 13) At the root prompt enter "make oldconfig"
> 14) Answer "no" to all the untested stuff
> 15) edit (for example with vi) the file .config to change 
> CONFIG_REGPARM=y to CONFIG_REGPARM=n and do the same if necessary to 
> CONFIG_4KSTACKS, save and exit
> 16) At the root prompt enter "make" (This step will take a while. Go 
> teach your children to swim, build a swimming pool if needed. Learn a 
> foreign language....)
> 17) At the root prompt enter "make modules_install"
> 18) At the root prompt enter "make install"
> 19) At the root prompt enter "shutdown -r now" and reboot in run-level 
> 3 as before
> 20) cd to where ever you put NVIDIA and "sh NVIDIA ..." to go through 
> the 5366 install again, yes you have to.
> 21) Edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file as usual, remove load "dri" and 
> make sure Driver is "nvidia" save and exit
> 22) At the root prompt enter "startx". What a difference.
> 
> NB I got an "error activating the XKB configuration"
> notice, I ignored it because as you can see the keyboard works fine.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Daryl
> 
> 
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