[mythtv-users] Where to find Myth Setup Information?

[Mike McMullin]

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 16:40 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> On 01/10/2011 07:41 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> > which is why I ask for this post to be viewed as
> > an observation, and not a criticism!
> >
> > The particular passage the OP identified, on setting up a capture
> > card, says (as previously quoted) "Choose the appropriate settings for
> > your particular tuner. Use the arrow keys to move around and to make
> > your choices, and press RETURN when complete. Pressing RETURN will
> > take you back to the Capture Cards screen; if you have additional
> > capture cards in this machine, press the space bar when the highlight
> > is on the (New Capture Card) row to define another card."
> >
> > Now you don't have to be around myth for long to know that is a VERY
> > once over lightly version of what you need to do to set up a capture
> > card.
> 
> 
> I agree that that is very much 'once over lightly'. But earlier the 
> point is made that myth will not work if the underlying hardware does 
> not work. It is (rather unfortunately) assumed and not explicitly stated 
> at that point, that the hardware must be working properly ALREADY.

  Oddly enough knowing whether or not the hardware was working correctly
was my biggest hurdle.  I knew it worked in Windows, I saw it constantly
referenced for MythTV, but had the worst time still.

> The external steps required to set up a new card are assumed to have 
> been completed. If you have not installed the firmware, for example, 
> there is nothing you can do within myth, to get that card to work. It is 
> impossible to do. And that is NOT myth's failure.

  Is installing firmware typical for all supported cards?

> I agree however, that to many unknowledgable users it *IS* myth's fault. 
> (Those are properly 'ignorant' users: those who do not know, but since I 
> do not mean it in a pejorative sense 'unknowledgable can be a substitute.).
> 
> A warning could and should be added to the mythtv-setup program to 
> explain this.
> 
> Geoff
>