On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 08:44 +0200, Milos Prudek wrote: > Yesterday I installed Myth on Mandrake 10.1. After reading this list for > 2 years I expected to spend a week installing myth. Especially because I > decided to buy PVR-150, which has unstable drivers. > > No such luck. All I needed was a few hours. Jarod's guide was not used > at all. The following description summarizes my experience and it will > be useful to a somewhat experienced Mandrake user. > > Step 1) ivtv download and installation > > - Downloaded and installed ivtv-0.3.3k simply by following the first ten > lines in doc/install.txt.
any reason you used an older version? I installed mine a week or so ago and 0.3.6r was the latest, and I just checked and found that its up to 0.3.6w ! > You can skip the rest of install.txt > - DO NOT use the instructions in QuickSetup for modprobe.conf > modification. It may causes hard lockup of the OS when you run "modprobe > ivtv" later on. Instead enter this into your modprobe.conf: > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv > That is right. Just two lines. ivtv-0.3.3 will figure out the rest. this is also my experience with ivtv and the pvr-150 (gentoo). It also led to problems in that when I initially just modprobed ivtv (after compiling and installing) it (unexpectedly) worked first time. I was amazed. Then I put all that extra bumf in modules.conf, rebooted and it stopped working. Took me ages to work out I had to go back to letting it guess its own parameters. One thing to be sure of is that you need ivtv modprobed before you start mythbackend. > I can't express how amazed I am with the Myth abilities and the sheer > scope of functions it supports. This installation was definitely worth > my time. > ditto. I have toyed with myth from 0.10 to 0.18.1, but I've only seriously built a separate box with 0.16 and 0.18.1. There sure has been a big improvement over the last couple of years. (0.10 was installed in Aug 2003) > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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