On Wednesday 29 December 2004 14:19, Paul Leppert wrote: > All, I'm new to mythtv (and brand new to this mailing list), but just > went through an install with FC3 and Jarod's guide. ÂI only ran into a > handful of problems: > Â Â 1. My video folders were not set up with correct permissions (root > versus mythtv)
Which video folders? Only the backend needs read/write for the recordings and buffer folders, and the backend runs as root, so no permissions changes are needed there. > Â Â 2. My hauppauge remote needed a different /etc/.lirc file than the > one that Jarod described (even though I had a new hauppauge pvr-250) http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=348 > Â Â 3. The instructions seem to be missing a mknod for /etc/video and > /etc/lirc (but that may have been user error following the > instructions) I believe you mean /dev/video and /dev/lirc. The OS-provided udev rules will take care of creating /dev/videoX when needed, and the udev rules listed here... http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=317 ...will take care of creating lirc devices. > Â Â 4. Finally, the instructions for making everything work following > a reboot (auto restart) didn't work for me and I ended up putting > everything in rc.local (modprobes, ln for /etc/video, lircd, mtd, and > mythbackend). Yes, that's mentioned at the top of the guide now in the latest news part. I'm working on it... > I found Jarod's guide to be invaluable in setting everything up > (especially for a linux / mythtv newbie like me), so I don't > understand the comments that people are unable to use Jarod's guide. :-) > I'd be happy to post the specifics of my changes from Jarod's guide > (I'm trying to document everything so I can recreate my configuration > since I'm just test-piloting this now). Bring 'em on. A good place to put them is http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/. -- Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
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