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Mike G: Thanks a lot for
your input, Mike, though it didn’t fix my probs! J I have already been all over the place, including your
suggestions, which btw are ace J I decided to test why the
annoying hd-failures kept creeping up, and threw in an old 40 gig Samsung drive
(WD400) as slave on IDE0:1. I installed Mythdora on this, but even though I could
get all the way through to mythtv-setup, those pesky dma int errors kept creeping
up on me, now on the /dev/hdb which is the Samsung! Either I have a faulty
Motherboard, or theres a specific patch/kerneloption/whatever I’m missing
out on regarding my Abit KT7-raid mobo. Strange thing is, after
installing mythdora 1.5, I got all the way to setup, but after fiddling about
for a bit, I only managed to setup the Capture Card settings, then in the
channel settings I opt for Danish channels plus Europe-west channel setup
(yeah, I’m Danish! J ), and on exiting this, it tries to update but
completely stalls on 50 %. Is this supposed to take long, or could it be
stalled due wrong Capture Card setup? TIA, Gabriel From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Grusin Hi Gabriel, I had hoped someone else would follow up, as I haven't seen your exact
problem. I can only offer general advice, but I hope it
helps. I recently got Myth running on a fresh Gentoo install (with a 500
card) without major problems (Gentoo was more trouble than Myth was). If
you're having "HUGE" problems, it might be time to back up a little
bit, because (assuming your hardware is OK; it may not be), it shouldn't be
that hard. Most of the problems I've had were from rushing through
installation; when I go back and read the instructions more carefully, things
generally work better. IMO, the key to success is: getting one thing running at a time, and
making sure it works before moving to the next item. Also, I'd try getting
the bare-bones Myth running before adding any other packages (I love
portage, but I would expect that uninstalling things would leave loose ends
causing more problems). I'd also leave out any startup automation
until later; even if you have to manually start X, mythbackend, and
mythfrontend, you'll at least know it works in the simplest possible
case. And your hard drive errors sound pretty bad; if the drive and
interface check out, maybe there's a misconfiguration in the kernel, fstab,
etc. When/if you start over, spend some extra time on the drive config
and test it if possible (this is beyond my knowledge, maybe someone else
can help). The websites which really helped me out were: I know this isn't much help, but consider it
encouragement. ;) Good luck! -MG. |
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