First I want to thank Jarod and the MythTV developers. While my initial pass at building a MythTV system is not yet 100% the parts I do have working are amazing. And Jarod's guide has been very helpful in getting this far.
First some system specs just in case this is causing some of the issues. Asus P5GD2 Deluxe Mother board, 3.6GHz CPU, Mad Dog FX 5500 GeForce FX PCI video card, Hauppauge PVR-350, 2GB memory, 1TB disk space. Fedora Core 3 and using the ATRPMS for MythTV 0.17 following Jarod's guide for installation. Basic setup required a minor dance to get the on board ethernet working and of course to install the NVIDIA drivers for the video card. Nothing there that could not be handled and all that seems to work as expected. One surprise was with the audio drivers. I did have to install the alsa-driver package separately but the system still refuses to find the built in audio card. However when I started up MythTV the sound works just fine. Seems like the sound card detection tool just does not believe the audio device is there. Leaving this for later scrutiny. The big problem I am having at the moment is getting the remote control to work with MythTV. It appears that I have the "new" Hauppage remote control, gray on top black on the bottom with the four colored buttons along the bottom. I installed the lirc packages and can use irw to see all the keys being pressed. The guide indicates that the lircrc file needed to be placed in the ~mythtv/.mythtv directory. However I saw an error message indicating that the .lircrc file could not be found in the ~mythtv directory. Initially I did not seem to get any response to the remote while running the mythfrontend. After putting a copy of .lircrc in the ~mythtv directory there seems to be partial recognition of the remote. The OK button seems to work as well as the mute button. Very little else seems to work as expected. I did try going through the irrecord process to generate a new lirc.conf file. BTW: there seems to be a buffer caching issue with that code. I found that after entering the name of the next button and pressing enter it would prompt to press and hold the button. But most of the time it would immediately ask to input the next buttons name before I even had a chance to press the button. As such the file generated had duplicates of virtually every button with the first entry matching the previous buttons values. Was able to work around by editing the file and I tried my new file. The results were pretty much the same as with the original file. Second issue that I have not spent as much time on yet is with the DVD drive. Not sure if this is an issue with KDE or not. Have not used KDE that much but would not expect it to be that much different from Gnome. It seems like MythTV is not seeing the drive as expected. When built the system appears to have created a /dev/dvd device but it is linked to /dev/hda. I believe this was the result of this DVD drive being the only IDE device in the box. Although this could be the actual problem. Like I said I have not spent as much time on this one as the remote. The other minor problem at the moment is with MythWeather. When I have tried to go in and select the location the front end seems to hang. Have tried this three or four times now with the same result. Other than that the box is recording shows as expected and playing them back just fine. I have not sorted out all the commercial skipping stuff yet but it does appear to flag the commercials. I will tackle that once I get the remote problem sorted out. Eventually the system will be moved to the family room and run headless out there. And at some point I plan to install another tuner card. Any pointers to resolve the above problems would be greatly appreciated. Again, thanks for a great set of packages. -- Scot L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humor in the Court: Q: ...any suggestions as to what prevented this from being a murder trial instead of an attempted murder trial? A: The victim lived.
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