On 5/5/2005 8:11 AM Nick wrote:
On 5/4/05, 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.
Drew,
Out of interest, what system/motherboard are you builing your Myth
system with? Are there no other PATA connectors other than those
connected to the Promise controller?
The motherboard is an Asus K7V-T. It does have two UDMA/66 connectors
with only a CD drive attached to the primary. However the Promise card
has a UDMA/133 connector and the drive supports the higher speed so
that's why I'm trying to use it. I know I could just go along with
"what works" as one poster suggested and if just getting a Myth box
running was my only goal, that's what I would do. But I like to learn
why stuff works the way it does so I don't mind trying to get this
working "the hard way". And to be honest, I suspect once I get the
system running and use it awhile, I'll go out and buy complete new
hardware as this box is just an AMD Thunderbird running at 750 mhz. I
can already tell that I'll be pushing the limits of this processor.
Cheers,
Drew
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