[mythtv-users] MythtTV on Gentoo: resources?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi david,

Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 3:41:06 AM, you wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:36 PM, James Miller <gajs-f0el at dea.spamcon.org>
> wrote:

>>
>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, david brooke wrote:
>>
>>  I'm relatively new to Gentoo and I used the guide below to basically
>>> install Mythtv. I posted this guide initially a few weeks back and several
>>> members helped refine it. If you are installing just a frontend, then
>>> follow steps 1, 11 and 12. If installing a backend then follow the entire
>>> guide. I personally didn't install pulseaudio which happened automatically
>>> since I didn't declare pulseaudio in make.conf or package.use. I added
>>> media-tv/mythtv dvb to the package.use file to enable the use of my tuner
>>> cards (Dvico and pcHDTV).
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for that information, David. Should come in handy. I'd like to
>> avoid pulseaudio, but I'm not sure I understand how it got on your system,
>> even though you didn't emerge it. Any tips on how to stick with just ALSA?
>> Btw, this machine is to be a combination FE/BE, so I'll have to do some
>> adapting.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>

> Sorry for the mis-understanding.....pulseaudio isn't installed. This
> happens automatically...meaning only alsa is installed. If you wanted
> pulseaudio then you would need to specify pulseaudio in the use statement
> in make.conf or in package.use.

A few things.
Use a simple window manager for your frontend. I use evilwm. If you
use gnome you will get pulseaudio and worse systemd.
If you use the proprietary nvidia drivers, be sure to have your kernel
clean of drm and kms when you compile it, else you get opengl mixups.
(nvidia will partially link against loaded modules!)
This means initially install the kernel with only ancient vesa
framebuffer support when you pull in nvidia.
If you want I can sent you my back and frontend start scripts.


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