On 5/4/2005 11:08 AM Jeff Simpson wrote:
On 5/3/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to build a MythTV box. [ snip ]
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.
You're in a tough position. Being new to linux, you'd like to have a system that is very easy to use, but seeing that you have strange and partially unsupported hardware, it makes it tough.
Not to be a gung-ho gentoo user, but using a linux distro that is source-based may be a good idea for you. That way you won't ever run into problems where a package is compiled for a certain kernel / os / etc.
Once I had gentoo up and running, myth is almost as simple as "emerge mythtv ivtv". I'm sure it's almost as easy for those using apt-get or possibly yum, but I believe those are still using pre-compiled binary packages.
Gentoo is tough to start out with, but the install guide is very full
featured and explains every step of the way, and the forums are great
for getting answers to difficult problems.
Thanks for the tip! Your the second that has recommended Gentoo. I may go that route as it sounds more like the FreeBSD that I am used to. I just tried Fedora because it's very similar to RedHat and RedHat is the only "allowed" distro (because of support contracts) at my place of employment. Thus I'd be "killing two birds with one stone", so to speak.
Cheers,
Drew
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