On Sun, December 31, 2006 10:53 am, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> This post is an announcement of intent designed to open a MythTV thread >> on >> which I will ask for LOTS of help. >> >> First I want to thank Gus who made a case and the KnoppMyth DVD >> available >> to me. Then I want to thank my wife for recognizing this as a valuable >> project and encouraging me to devote valuable time to it. Then I want to >> thank the MythTV developers, Linus Torvalds, my mother, my father, my >> hairdresser ... >> >> OK, here is where we are. >> >> 1.6666 mHz AMD CPU >> 500 MB RAM >> ~ 300 GB IDE disk space >> IDE CD/DVD R/W >> Gyration keyboard/mouse (http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/gyration.html) >> NVidia TV output (actual card to be posted later when I struggle with >> it) >> Hauppage 150 >> D-Link wireless > [snip] > > I see that you have an AMD motherboard. Does it have a VIA chipset, > specifically the KT133/KT133A ? If so you will have problems because > there is a bug in the DMA operation with the PVR-150 card. I had to buy > a new motherboard because of that. I got a cheap ($89) Fry's special > combo of an ECS 755 with an SIS chipset and a Sempron processor that > works great.
Oops! http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=408 Guess I'm off to Fry's. Yet another entry in the "Now They Tell Me/You Shoulda Read It First" department. > > While doing your initial setup it may be more useful not to have the gdm > (Gnome Display Manager) and X start up automatically. Debian doesn't > believe in run levels (well, it does but not the same way as say RedHat) > so you will need to manually hack some symlinks. The system will start > up in run level 5. Use Ctr-Alt-F2 to get to a text login. Go to > /etc/rc5.d In that directory you will see a symlink called S99gdm. This > points to the startup script for gdm. Move it to K99gdm to prevent it > from starting. The next time you reboot you will then be at a regular > text login prompt. > > The other thing I noticed is that the system uses the original vi and > not vim for an editor. This may be OK but it drove me crazy so I > installed vim like this: > > # apt-get update > # apt-get install vim > > For your wireless card, could you please provide the exact make and > model? The output of lspci would be useful also. This will make sure the > right modules are selected for your wireless card. I hope this doesn't > require ndiswrapper but the good news is that the most of what you need > is already in the distribution. > > Gus > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
