Mailing List Archive: SUCCESS: I've had EVERY SINGLE problem possible.

SUCCESS: I've had EVERY SINGLE problem possible.

Mar 26, 2003, 3:40 PM

Post #1 of 4 (1401 views)

Well,
I finally did it. It finally started to work.

Here's my rig:
Chaintech 6BTM Mobo (440BX)
P3 - 500MHZ
256 Megs PC100 SDRAM
Two 20-Gig 5400 RPM drives
Asus GeForce 4 Ti4200
ATi TV-Wonder VE
SoundBlaster Audigy (MP3+)

Running Redhat 8.0 (no updates)...

The majority of my MythTV problems were resultant of my soundcard
initially. At first, I had a SoundBlaster 128 (es1370 aka ens1370) in my
machine. The es1370 is an older version of it, and despite what anyone else
tells you, ALSA and OSS DO NOT LIKE this card in full duplex mode. I would
keep getting hangs when I would select "Watch TV"...
It would hang with "Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV".

Anyways, this was my final major stumbling block. I fixed it by sticking the
Audigy from my main rig into my MythTV box.

Most of my other problems were compile problems. Holy hell there were a lot
of things to install. Luckily, many of the dependencies were already
installed because I had already got Freevo (http://freevo.sf.net) to run.

I only have two remaining problems:
- MythTV doesn't like Gnome, and in KDE 3 I get the taskbar at the bottom of
my video...
- Lirc works with Freevo, but not with MythTV. Irxevent says it can't find a
config or something...

My advice to people who want to install MythTV?
- Try not to go with Redhat 8... It's not that good. Really.
- If you're installing Freevo, the MythTV installation docs are extremely
helpful.
- ALSA isn't that difficult to install, follow the MythTV docs to victory.
- If you DO decide to go with Redhat 8, there is a great program called
"synaptic" that you should install. It goes to the internet to a repository
of RPMs for RH8 and you can just click and select what you wish to install.
(Very handy!)
(type su, then "rpm -Uvh
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/psyche/apt/apt-0.5.5cnc4.1-fr1.i386.r
pm")
It'll appear in your system menu somewhere...
- Many problems that you'll hear about won't exist anymore thanks to the
graphical setup. It makes everything go smooth. :)

Anyways, just wanted to share my experiences. I'm REALLY happy that I got
this to work.... Freevo and MythTV now both run like dreams (well... almost
MythTV).
I can get fairly good performance for LiveTV and recording in MythTV on my
P3-500, so don't be afraid to tweak your settings. :)

If anyone could clear up those two remaining problems, it would be great.

Thanks

Re: SUCCESS: I've had EVERY SINGLE problem possible. [ In reply to ]

bigman1 at alltel

Mar 26, 2003, 4:37 PM

Post #2 of 4 (1378 views)

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Hello Albert,
From my understanding the VE's do not support btaudio onyl the
stereo non-VE does.
Wednesday, March 26, 2003, 4:40:31 PM, you wrote:

> Well,
> I finally did it. It finally started to work.

> Here's my rig:
> Chaintech 6BTM Mobo (440BX)
> P3 - 500MHZ
> 256 Megs PC100 SDRAM
> Two 20-Gig 5400 RPM drives
> Asus GeForce 4 Ti4200
> ATi TV-Wonder VE
> SoundBlaster Audigy (MP3+)

> Running Redhat 8.0 (no updates)...

> The majority of my MythTV problems were resultant of my soundcard
> initially. At first, I had a SoundBlaster 128 (es1370 aka ens1370) in my
> machine. The es1370 is an older version of it, and despite what anyone else
> tells you, ALSA and OSS DO NOT LIKE this card in full duplex mode. I would
> keep getting hangs when I would select "Watch TV"...
> It would hang with "Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV".

> Anyways, this was my final major stumbling block. I fixed it by sticking the
> Audigy from my main rig into my MythTV box.

> Most of my other problems were compile problems. Holy hell there were a lot
> of things to install. Luckily, many of the dependencies were already
> installed because I had already got Freevo (http://freevo.sf.net) to run.

> I only have two remaining problems:
> - MythTV doesn't like Gnome, and in KDE 3 I get the taskbar at the bottom of
> my video...
> - Lirc works with Freevo, but not with MythTV. Irxevent says it can't find a
> config or something...

> My advice to people who want to install MythTV?
> - Try not to go with Redhat 8... It's not that good. Really.
> - If you're installing Freevo, the MythTV installation docs are extremely
> helpful.
> - ALSA isn't that difficult to install, follow the MythTV docs to victory.
> - If you DO decide to go with Redhat 8, there is a great program called
> "synaptic" that you should install. It goes to the internet to a repository
> of RPMs for RH8 and you can just click and select what you wish to install.
> (Very handy!)
> (type su, then "rpm -Uvh
> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/psyche/apt/apt-0.5.5cnc4.1-fr1.i386.r
> pm")
> It'll appear in your system menu somewhere...
> - Many problems that you'll hear about won't exist anymore thanks to the
> graphical setup. It makes everything go smooth. :)

> Anyways, just wanted to share my experiences. I'm REALLY happy that I got
> this to work.... Freevo and MythTV now both run like dreams (well... almost
> MythTV).
> I can get fairly good performance for LiveTV and recording in MythTV on my
> P3-500, so don't be afraid to tweak your settings. :)

> If anyone could clear up those two remaining problems, it would be great.

> Thanks

> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

--
Best regards,
Wayne mailto:bigman1@alltel.net

Re: SUCCESS: I've had EVERY SINGLE problem possible. [ In reply to ]

mythtv at zencow

Mar 26, 2003, 10:10 PM

Post #3 of 4 (1365 views)

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Albert Santoni wrote
> I only have two remaining problems:
> - MythTV doesn't like Gnome, and in KDE 3 I get the taskbar at the bottom of
> my video...

You can't really get around this with KDE. You *can* configure
your taskbar to "auto hide" (which still leaves a row of pixels)
or, what I do, is click on the left or right side of it to hide
it manually. It shrinks to the height of the taskbar, but only
a few pixels wide (the size of the click areas are configurable
and I bet it would change the size of the remaining pixels, too).
If you're not dependent on KDE, another window manager would get
away from this problem and other focus issues that you're not
even mentioning, yet. :).

> - Lirc works with Freevo, but not with MythTV. Irxevent says it can't find a
> config or something...

what does your .lircrc file look like? I'm guessing that
you're using a context-aware config for Freevo and that there
are no settings for generic input (this is a leap, since I'm
fairly new to lirc, but I think I understand the concepts).

-Chris

Re: SUCCESS: I've had EVERY SINGLE problem possible. [ In reply to ]

chepati at yahoo

Mar 27, 2003, 9:39 AM

Post #4 of 4 (1384 views)

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Or you can comment out the panel (I believe it's the kicker line) in startkde.
This won't start the panel at all.

IvanK.

On Thursday 27 March 2003 12:10 am, Chris Palmer wrote:
> Albert Santoni wrote
>
> > I only have two remaining problems:
> > - MythTV doesn't like Gnome, and in KDE 3 I get the taskbar at the bottom
> > of my video...
>
> You can't really get around this with KDE. You *can* configure
> your taskbar to "auto hide" (which still leaves a row of pixels)
> or, what I do, is click on the left or right side of it to hide
> it manually. It shrinks to the height of the taskbar, but only
> a few pixels wide (the size of the click areas are configurable
> and I bet it would change the size of the remaining pixels, too).
> If you're not dependent on KDE, another window manager would get
> away from this problem and other focus issues that you're not
> even mentioning, yet. :).
>
> > - Lirc works with Freevo, but not with MythTV. Irxevent says it can't
> > find a config or something...
>
> what does your .lircrc file look like? I'm guessing that
> you're using a context-aware config for Freevo and that there
> are no settings for generic input (this is a leap, since I'm
> fairly new to lirc, but I think I understand the concepts).
>
> -Chris
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