On Monday 30 May 2005 04:20, Brian Jackson wrote: > Alan Secker wrote: > > Hello Bryan > > > > I wanted to try the least demanding way to get a picture to appear. As > > Mandriva > > put the kdeTV icon on the desktop, I assumed it was compatible. > > Too bad Mandriva aren't as smart as you give them credit for. They probably > just add it anytime there is a /dev/video0. I suggest filing a bug for > them. > > > Anyway, I > > tried mplayer /dev/video0. It came up but only showed snow. > > That's good. Now you just need to tune something. > > > I then tried ptune.pl as you suggested. That returned: > > > > Can't locate Video/Frequencies.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at > > ptune.pl line 8. > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ptune.pl line 8. > Search for freq in Mandrake's drakconf - software - install, or rpmdrake. > You can get the required perl modules from the sourceforge site > (sourceforge.net/projects/ivtv). This is mentioned on one of the READMEs in > the tarball. > > > I finally installed mythTV (apparently overcoming MySQL dependency > > problems) It produced: > > > > Unable to connect to database! > > Driver error was [1/2013]: > > QMYSQL3: Unable to connect > > Database error was: > > Lost connection to MySQL server during query > > You have to have mysql to use mythtv. You can find install docs on the > mythtv.org website. They are very in depth. You could take a look at http://rpm.nyvalls.se there's info and complete rpms and running in a script --------------------- urpmi.addmedia plf-free ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/mandrake/free/10.1 with hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia plf-nonfree ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/mandrake/non-free/10.1 with hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrakelinux/offici al/10.1/i586/media/main with media_info/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrakelinux/off icial/10.1/i586/media/contrib with media_info/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS with hdlist.cz --------------------------- You'll be able to find all you need. Henk Schoneveld > --Brian > > > Regards > > > > Alan
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