On 5/3/2005 5:15 PM Howard Cokl wrote:
--- Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to build a MythTV box. I've been using
FreeBSD for around 4
years but I have no experience with Linux. So my
first attempt was to
build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of
problems and eventually I
gave up. Since MythTV was written for Linux I
thought I might have an
easier time just using Linux.
I started with Knoppmyth but couldn't get the CD to
boot on my system.
Lurking here and seeing the success others were
having with Fedora and
Jarod Wilson's guide prompted me to give that a try.
But unfortunately,
I have a Promise 150 SATA controller in my system.
Attached to this
card is a PATA (regular IDE) drive. However the
sata_promise driver
doesn't support the PATA interface on this card.
Only the SATA
interfaces.
Googling suggested that to get this support, I
needed to patch the
sources with libata-devel and rebuild my own kernel.
Lot's of googling
later and I've built and installed a custom kernel.
Seems to boot fine
and the PATA drive is now recognized! :) But now,
other packaged
modules such as the nvidia and ivtv drivers in Jarod
Wilson's guide
don't work. :( I suspect this is because they
were packaged for the
default kernel and not the custom one I built?
It appears I need to learn a whole lot more about
Linux and how to build
what I need from source. Am I on the right track?
Can anyone suggest
some good newbie guides to this stuff? I find
snippets googling but
have been unable to turn up any complete guides.
Thanks,
Drew
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nvidia and ivtv are very easy, nvidia just download
the version you want (probably 7174) so wget
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7174/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
and then as root sh
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
It'll do everything for you, build and install the
kernel module and the xorg driver/libs.
For ivtv just download what you need, I have a old
freestyle so I would use wget
http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.2/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j.tgz
tar xzf ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j.tgz; cd
ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/driver; make; make install; cd
../utils; make make install
Hope this make sense, trying to get the kids ready for
bed.
I had to create some devices in /etc/udev/devices for
the nvidia stuff and had to set up an file to load
modules before mythbackend starts, basically modprobe
ivtv
Thanks Howard! I've been able to compile these parts and get them
running. However I still don't understand if I'm going to be able to
use rpms that are generally available or if I will need to compile code
for everything I want to run.
Thanks,
Drew
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