I'm starting a project to build a MythTV box for my living room. Anyone else currently working with MythTV on CentOS 4? Here are some of the gotcha's I've worked through so far: - I was originally planning on using KnoppMyth. But their CD appears to be only for i386. Without realizing it, the P4 CPU I picked is one of the newer ones with the x86_64 extensions. It won't boot i386. Thus, my plan B is going with CentOS4 x86_64 and installing from the ATrpms collection. Here's someone who's already doing this: http://umich2.com/archives/category/linux/mythtv/ - I picked up a cheap Radeon 7000 with TV out. Wrong! Various posts seem to say that the TV Out functionality is not supported by the X.org radeon driver. It *does* work with the vesa driver though. I just don't know if video and DVD playback will work with the vesa driver. Does anyone know? - The stock RedHat kernel does *not* have irda support enabled. I downloaded 2.6.13.2, enabled irda, and my motherboard's irda port is found and configured. We'll see if I can get it to work with the IR adapter in the nMediaPC case I bought. Kirk Bocek
Kirk Bocek wrote:> I'm starting a project to build a MythTV box for my living room. > Anyone else currently working with MythTV on CentOS 4? > > Here are some of the gotcha's I've worked through so far: > > - I was originally planning on using KnoppMyth. But their CD appears > to be only for i386. Without realizing it, the P4 CPU I picked is one > of the newer ones with the x86_64 extensions. It won't boot i386. > Thus, my plan B is going with CentOS4 x86_64 and installing from the > ATrpms collection. Here's someone who's already doing this: > > http://umich2.com/archives/category/linux/mythtv/ > > - I picked up a cheap Radeon 7000 with TV out. Wrong! Various posts > seem to say that the TV Out functionality is not supported by the > X.org radeon driver. It *does* work with the vesa driver though. I > just don't know if video and DVD playback will work with the vesa > driver. Does anyone know? > > - The stock RedHat kernel does *not* have irda support enabled. I > downloaded 2.6.13.2, enabled irda, and my motherboard's irda port is > found and configured. We'll see if I can get it to work with the IR > adapter in the nMediaPC case I bought. > > Kirk Bocek > > > >Kirk, I've got an X600 ATI board, and the ATI driver *does* support the TV out function as well as dual monitors in either horizontal or vertical splits. I don't use the TV-out function. I believe I recall seeing the 7000 series being supported. Might check the ATI website. Good luck.. Sam -- Snowman
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 14:11, Kirk Bocek wrote:> I'm starting a project to build a MythTV box for my living room. Anyone else > currently working with MythTV on CentOS 4? >Have not used Centos but I do have a master backend/frontend running on FC3 and a slave backend/frontend running on FC4. I would think the easiest way to do this with Centos would be to use the ATRPMS as a base and work from there. The other alternative is to build it from source which should not be to bad. Just use the various how to's and guides put out for FC3 as a starting point. Jarod's guide is pretty good. Just remember to expand and read all the sections. http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/> - I picked up a cheap Radeon 7000 with TV out. Wrong! Various posts seem to say that > the TV Out functionality is not supported by the X.org radeon driver. It *does* work > with the vesa driver though. I just don't know if video and DVD playback will work > with the vesa driver. Does anyone know? >Been using the TV out on the PVR-350. Have been using this primarily for recording TV and playing it back. The output is spectacular. I can not tell the difference between the original broadcast show and the mythtv recording. (except that is skips over most commercials automatically of course. )> - The stock RedHat kernel does *not* have irda support enabled. I downloaded > 2.6.13.2, enabled irda, and my motherboard's irda port is found and configured. We'll > see if I can get it to work with the IR adapter in the nMediaPC case I bought. > > Kirk BocekI use the remote provided by the PVR-350 which does a good job. The second system I installed this on took all of about 15 minutes to get the remote working if that much time. If/when you get to the point of setting up a slave backend let me know, there were a couple of gotcha's that I had to work through to get that working as expected. And as far as I am concerned none of the how to's or guides really explain setting up a slave backend clearly. (I think by the time they got to setting up a slave backend they assumed a lot and knew how it all worked, those of us new to mythtv don't have that background, yet.) Depending on the type of inputs you will be recording you will want to have at least two capture cards if not three or four. This makes conflicts less likely to occur.
On Monday 26 September 2005 20.11, Kirk Bocek wrote:> I'm starting a project to build a MythTV box for my living room. Anyone > else currently working with MythTV on CentOS 4? > > Here are some of the gotcha's I've worked through so far: > > - I was originally planning on using KnoppMyth. But their CD appears to be > only for i386. Without realizing it, the P4 CPU I picked is one of the > newer ones with the x86_64 extensions. It won't boot i386.Intel CPUs with EM64T _will_ work fine with i386 dists. Lots of people pick a i386 dist (even when there is a similar x86_64 dist available) for software and hardware compatibility reasons. /Peter> Thus, my plan B > is going with CentOS4 x86_64 and installing from the ATrpms collection. > Here's someone who's already doing this: > > http://umich2.com/archives/category/linux/mythtv/ > > - I picked up a cheap Radeon 7000 with TV out. Wrong! Various posts seem to > say that the TV Out functionality is not supported by the X.org radeon > driver. It *does* work with the vesa driver though. I just don't know if > video and DVD playback will work with the vesa driver. Does anyone know? > > - The stock RedHat kernel does *not* have irda support enabled. I > downloaded 2.6.13.2, enabled irda, and my motherboard's irda port is found > and configured. We'll see if I can get it to work with the IR adapter in > the nMediaPC case I bought. > > Kirk Bocek-- ------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Kjellstr?m | National Supercomputer Centre | Sweden | http://www.nsc.liu.se -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050928/282af8ae/attachment.sig>
Peter Kjellstr?m wrote:> > Intel CPUs with EM64T _will_ work fine with i386 dists. Lots of people pick a > i386 dist (even when there is a similar x86_64 dist available) for software > and hardware compatibility reasons. > > /PeterThat's what I thought too. I had wanted to run i386 for compatibility. But as I mentioned to Brian J. Smith off-list, both KnoppMyth and CentoOS4.1 i386 hung when booting off of the install disk. Whereas CentoOS4.1 x86_64 installed without complaint. Can anyone come up with a reason x86_64 would boot but i386 wouldn't? On the other side of the compatibility coin, ATrpms has a *full* set of el4.x86_64 RPMs for MythTV, Lirc, etc. So far, compatibility has not been and issue. I mentioned in my first post that I installed the lastest kernel. Turns out that that really wasn't needed. ATrpms has all the needed kernel modules pre-compiled for the currently released kernel. By going with the latest kernel I've had to compile and install all those modules myself. Kirk Bocek