[mythtv-users] MythtTV on Gentoo: resources?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Rich,

Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 11:47:52 AM, you wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

> Some of this depends on the nature of the box.  If you're running
> mythfrontend on a desktop-oriented box, then for the most part you
> just install it and launch it like any application and it generally
> just works.  If you want something that you're sticking in your living
> room and controlling with a remote control, then you need to get it to
> auto-launch and set up lirc/etc.  Gentoo already includes scripts to
> simplify this, and I've gotten this working both with openrc and
> systemd fairly easily.  In such a configuration I wouldn't use any
> window manager at all, unless you're doing something other than mythtv
> as well.  You can just launch mythtv full-screen directly under X11
> and it is designed to work just fine.

Not wholly true. Officially mythtv without windowmanager is not
supported, although several users do it that way without problem. The
advantage to me is having virtual screens. I have my mainfrontend
hooked up to an older interlaced TV, so I don't have a text screen. I
have standard a console window open on my second virtual screen. Also
I start mythtv from a console, so I can immediately check the log with
alt-tab.

The logging I forgot I use --syslog local7 or local5 (depending on the
machine) to log to syslog.

> I'm curious as to why you're using anything special for your backend -
> the init.d script and systemd units should work just fine out of the
> box, though depending on your logging preferences you might want to
> fiddle with them (mythlogserver is supposed to go away in the future I
> believe, so I'd probably avoid it if starting out fresh and the
> systemd default config does not use it now).

> Nvidia does need some special care.  I use a stock kernel with kms on
> my Radeon box, and I do just what you say on my Nvidia box.

> --
> Rich  (I maintain mythtv on Gentoo - always open to feedback)
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