[mythtv-users] CentOS and Mythtv

[Dale Christ]

On 4/5/07, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 05 April 2007 14:13:39 Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:00:56PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:25:03 Tom Lichti wrote:
> > > > Dale Christ wrote:
> > > > > Has anyone tried using CentOS (I's probably use 5 when it
> completes
> > > > > beta) for MythTV?  I'm curious to see if it more stable than
> Fedora
> > > > > Core 6.  Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > I have a CentOS 4.4 frontend only running current SVN, and it works
> > > > fine, no problems. I haven't tried it as a backend though.
> > >
> > > RHEL4/CentOS4 blows for a backend, at least if HDTV figures into the
> > > equation. Most DVB drivers don't build on such an aged kernel.
> > > RHEL5/CentOS5 doesn't have drivers out of the box for most capture
> cards
> > > either, but they can be built and provided via kernel module rpms (and
> > > Axel is already planning to do so).
> >
> > You mean this? :=)
> >
> > http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/video4linux/
> > http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/ivtv/
> >
> > > EL5 should indeed make for a rather nice platform.
> >
> > I think all bits are there for CentOS5 based mythtv boxes, but
> > CentOS5. :)
>
> Gah, I should have known you already had these done (built against actual
> RHEL5), I just got hung up by the fact CentOS 5 isn't yet officially out
> yet. :)
>
> Out of curiosity, any plans to do xfs kernel modules too?
>
>

I sure hope so....two of my drives are XFS formatted ;-)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20070405/a8c6d951/attachment.htm