Jim Gifford wrote:
Ol' Schoola wrote:
Epox 8RDA3+, 2500+ Mobile, 512 of 2700 DDR, GF4 MX 440, Hauppaugge PVR-350, Air2PC.
My goal today is to rebuild a FE/BE combined unit (to be seperated shortly down the road) from the ashes of a FC2 box which died a tragic and horrible death 10 days ago. It was a Soyo Dragon (SY-K7V) 1600+ which performed admirably over it's four year lifespan.
The new hardware was selected in order to accomodate the jump to high-def. The CPU and vid will be bumped to ideal specs next week or so, I just want to get a head start on the build now that all the hardware is coming together.
Here's the dilemna: When I started my first Myth box around the 0.15 days, I stuck primarily to Jarod's FC guide and tweaked away here and there to get what suited me but I never did foray into building from CVS. But then I got really tired of bug #78.
<digression> Just before the meltdown, I decided to go for broke and dump the 0.16 RPMs for CVS. One 'apt-get dist-upgrade' later and I found myself in the wonderful world of dependency hell because 2.6.10 got pulled in somehow. AFAIK, it shouldn't have happened from a dist-upgrade but it somehow did. And all the usual suspects broke due to kernel modules. To my surprise, I managed to fix them all through ATRPMs in very short order. At about that same time, I also managed to compile Mozilla Sunbird and both of these successful events gave me a really big boost of confidence but I also came to the realisation of just *how little* I know about the proper feed and caring of a solid linux system. </digression>
I was looking at Knoppmyth last night. That is quite the warehouse of howto's and whatnot but somehow I get the feeling I'm really not going to learn more of linux's intricacies by going that route.
I'm thinking more along the lines of LFS built up enough to bring in apt in order to get an easier start with CVS. I figure an initial Myth build on whatever is sitting in ATRPMs MythCVS and then pulling source in as needed. I know it won't be the easiest way to build a mythbox but I really, really need move on from linux newbie status and this seems like a way to do it.
In the very long run, I see a backend/NFS/SQL/apache server with those two capture cards and diskless frontend(s) capable of HD playback but that plan is for another day.
Any thoughts from the community? I'm planning on documenting the path I take and the adventures sure to follow and this seems like a good time to get input from those much smarter and wiser than I. Believe me, I can use all the input y'all have to offer. Think of it this way - you can have a vote on how my new Myth box turns out!
-- Meatwad
"Santa, I need presents. I need a unicycle, a banana suit, and a banana hat to wear with the banana suit."
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I'm on of the LFS editors, I would like to see a hint added to our repository. I can assist you
I have a mythtv .16 LFS 6.0 system running the 2.6.10 kernel.
It's still not perfect, but most of my issues are hardware related... I had to go with a 2.6.8.1+ kernel just to get support for the motherboard (It's a SY-P4RC350 with an onboard ATI IGP that wasn't supported until that version.)
I've scripted most of the build so I can redo portions as required, so I can help with any questions...
Anthony
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