[mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

[Drew Tomlinson]

I'm trying to build a MythTV box.  I've been using FreeBSD for around 4 
years but  I have no experience with Linux.  So my first attempt was to 
build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of problems and eventually I 
gave up.   Since MythTV was written for Linux I thought I might have an 
easier time just using Linux.

I started with Knoppmyth but couldn't get the CD to boot on my system.  
Lurking here and seeing the success others were having with Fedora and 
Jarod Wilson's guide prompted me to give that a try.  But unfortunately, 
I have a Promise 150 SATA controller in my system.  Attached to this 
card is a PATA (regular IDE) drive.  However the sata_promise driver 
doesn't support the PATA interface on this card.  Only the SATA 
interfaces. 

Googling suggested that to get this support, I needed to patch the 
sources with libata-devel and rebuild my own kernel.  Lot's of googling 
later and I've built and installed a custom kernel.  Seems to boot fine 
and the PATA drive is now recognized!  :)   But now, other packaged 
modules such as the nvidia and ivtv drivers in Jarod Wilson's guide 
don't work.   :(   I suspect this is because they were packaged for the 
default kernel and not the custom one I built?

It appears I need to learn a whole lot more about Linux and how to build 
what I need from source.  Am I on the right track?  Can anyone suggest 
some good newbie guides to this stuff?  I find snippets googling but 
have been unable to turn up any complete guides.

Thanks,

Drew

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